Meanings
plural baglamas · alternative bağlama
- A seven-stringed musical instrument in various cultures around the eastern Mediterranean, with a pear-shaped body, and strings in double or sometimes triple courses.
At the end of the room, as if behind an iconastasis of song, oud, baglamas, and a kind of hammered dulcimer called a santouri were being played without a break.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 945Synonyms: saz
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA seven-stringed musical instrument in various cultures around the eastern Mediterranean, with a pear-shaped body, and strings in double or sometimes triple courses.
Origin
- Turkishbağlama
- Englishbaglama
From Turkish bağlama, from bağlamak (“to tie”).
More words from Turkish
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