Etymology

barbat

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Today it means: An ancient Persian plucked lute with a pear-shaped body, a flat belly, an angled back near the pegbox, and a fretless neck. Full definition →

Persian بربط ← Ancient Greek βάρβιτος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromβάρβιτος
  2. Persian · borrowed fromبربط
  3. English todaybarbat

Borrowed from Persian بربط (barbat, barbot), from Middle Persian, possibly from Ancient Greek βάρβιτος (bárbitos), an unrelated musical instrument.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekβάρβιτος all →

barbitos

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.