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1. almug, n. View full entry 1539
...More fully almug tree. A tree mentioned in the Bible (2 Chron. 2:8, 1 Kings 10:11), said to have been brought as timber from Ophir and used for building and...
2. bulbul, n. View full entry 1784
...A bird: a species of the genus Pycnonotus, belonging to the Thrush family, much admired in the East for its song; hence sometimes called the ‘nightingale’ of the East....
3. chazzan, n. View full entry 1650
...A cantor or precentor in a Jewish synagogue....
4. darbuka, n. View full entry 1836
...A goblet-shaped, single-headed hand drum of a type originating in the Middle East and North Africa....
5. divan, n. View full entry 1586
...An Oriental council of state; spec. in Turkey, the privy council of the Porte, presided over by the Sultan, or in his absence by the grand vizier....
6. ghazal, n. View full entry 1801
...A species of Oriental lyric poetry, generally of an erotic nature, distinguished from other forms of Eastern verse by having a limited number of stanzas and by the recurrence of the same...
7. gimbri, n. View full entry 1876
...A small Moorish guitar played by plucking the strings with a piece of dry palmetto leaf; also, a player of this instrument....
8. Hallel, n. View full entry 1702
...A hymn of praise, consisting of Psalms cxiii to cxviii inclusive, sung at the four great Jewish feasts. Also attrib....
9. hallelujah | halleluiah, int. and n.1 View full entry 1535
...The exclamation ‘Praise (ye) the Lord (Jah, or Jehovah)’, which occurs in many psalms and anthems; hence, a song of praise to God; = alleluia...
10. hatikvah, n. View full entry 1925
...A national song, of which the words were written by N. H. Imber (18561909), adopted by the Zionist movement in 1907; since 1948 the Israeli...
11. Kaffir, n. and adj. View full entry 1785
...= caffre1, ‘infidel’, Giaour....
12. kakaki, n. View full entry 1932
...In West Africa, a long metal trumpet used on ceremonial occasions....
13. kanoon, n. View full entry 1817
...A species of dulcimer, harp, or sackbut, having fifty to sixty strings, which rest on two bridges and are played with the fingers....
14. kissar, n. View full entry 1864
...(See quot. 1964.) Also attrib....
15. kiˈtar, n. View full entry c1640
...A guitar or lyre....
16. maqam, n. View full entry 1792
...A melodic mode used as a basis for improvisation or composition in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish music....
17. molo, n. View full entry 1912
...Among the Hausa and Songhai people of West Africa: a type of stringed instrument (usually similar to a lute), with one, two, or three strings....
18. Mu'allaqat, n. View full entry 1772
...An anthology of seven pre-Islamic Arabian odes, each by a different 6th-cent. author, and said to have been collected together by Ḥammad al-Rāawiya (d. 772)....
19. nabi, n. (and adj.) View full entry 1874
...A person inspired to speak the word of God, according to ancient Semitic tradition; a prophet; spec. (in Judaism and Christianity) one of the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures (the...
20. nebel, n. View full entry 1753
...An ancient Hebrew stringed instrument....
