ketjak

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noun

A form of Balinese musical drama featuring rhythmic, percussive chanting.

OriginBalinese ketjak →
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Meanings

nounketjak (uncountable)

alternative kecak

  1. uncountableA form of Balinese musical drama featuring rhythmic, percussive chanting.
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    1999: An innovation on Mule Variations is the employment of a turntable artist, who as it turns out is so discrete you hardly notice, except on “Eyeball Kid”, which makes brilliantly apposite use of a sampled gospel choir and Balinese ketjak chanters — Luc Sante, Village Voice 12 May 1999 (Innocent When You Dream, Orion 2006, p. 250)

Origin

  1. Balineseketjak
  2. Balineseketjak
  3. Englishketjak

Borrowed from Balinese ketjak.

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APA

ketjak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ketjak

MLA

“ketjak.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ketjak. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ketjak,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ketjak.

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