lute

Oznaczający (Angielski)

Noun

1. A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
2. Some kind of sticky clay or cement.

Verb

To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

Verb

To fix or fasten something with lute.

Synonimy

luting

cement

swob

whistle

floating rule

sealing rubber ring

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/l(j)uːt/

Etymologia (Angielski)

From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.