kokle

plural kokles

1. A dove of southern Asia

   When listening to the song of the kokle, its melancholy cadences, and abrupt termination, always impressed my mind with the idea, that the broken strains were snatches of some mournful story, too full of wo to be told at once.

   Footnote to Kishen Kower in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's The Zenana. Quoted from Emma Roberts, Oriental Scenes

plural kokles · alternative obsolete kokles

1. A stringed instrument from the Baltic region, especially Latvia