Etymology

shamisen

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Today it means: A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute. Full definition →

Japanese 三味線
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  1. Japanese · derived from三味線
  2. English todayshamisen

From Japanese 三味線 (shamisen).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.