different between shamisen vs lute

English

Alternative forms

• samisen
• syamisen

Etymology

From Japanese ??? (shamisen).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æm?s?n/

Noun

shamisen (plural shamisens or shamisen)

1. (music) A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.

Synonyms

• jamisen, jabisen (used mainly in reference to archaic forms of the instrument from the Ryukyu Islands)
• sangen

Derived terms

• shamisenist

Translations

Finnish

Alternative forms

• samisen

Noun

shamisen

1. (music) shamisen

Declension

Japanese

Romanization

shamisen

1. R?maji transcription of ?????

Spanish

Noun

shamisen m (plural shamísenes)

1. shamisen

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l(j)u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lu?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: loot (in accents with yod-dropping)

Etymology 1

From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic ????????? (al-??d, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud.

Noun

lute (plural lutes)

1. A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

   Coordinate term: guitar

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• 2004. Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments. Murray Campbell, Clive A. Greated, Arnold Myers. Pg. 285.

Verb

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

1. To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

   • Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

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See also

Etymology 2

From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).

Noun

lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)

2. Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
   • 1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist) The History of Chemistry, Vol. 1, p. 41:

     He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.

3. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
4. (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.

Translations

Verb

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, page 179:

     To protect everything till it dried, a man […] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

Further reading

• lute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tuel, tuel, tule

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lut?/, [?lut?]

Adjective

lute

1. inflection of luty:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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Noun

lute f

1. lute

Inflection

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Descendants

• Dutch: luit

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “lute (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle Low German

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French leut (“lute, stringed instrument with a wide corpus”), from Old French leüt (“lute”), probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic ????????? (al-??d, “wood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?t?/

Noun

lûte f

1. A lute.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lúta, from Proto-Germanic *l?tan?.

Alternative forms

• luta (a-infinitive)

Verb

lute (present tense lutar/luter, past tense luta/lutte, past participle luta/lutt, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lut)

1. (intransitive) to bend over

Etymology 2

From the noun lut m or f (“lye”).

Alternative forms

• luta (a-infinitive)

Verb

lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lut)

1. (transitive) to soak, treat in lye

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hluta, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?n?.

Alternative forms

• luta (a-infinitive)
• lùta, lùte (alternative spelling)

Verb

lute (present tense lutar, past tense luta, past participle luta, passive infinitive lutast, present participle lutande, imperative lut)

1. to allot

References

• “lute” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• letu, ulet, ulte

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu.t?/

Adjective

lute

1. inflection of luty:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun

lute m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of luty

Portuguese

Verb

lute

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of lutar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of lutar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of lutar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of lutar