guembri
English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic كَمْبْرِي (kambrī).
Noun edit
guembri (plural guembris)
- (music) A kind of lute used by Berber musicians.
- 2016, Abdelmajid Hannoum, Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa, Routledge, →ISBN, page 137:
- A mu'alim (master musician) directs his musicians even as he also actively participates by playing an instrument known as the guembri to help draw the attention of the spirit world. The guembri, a three-stringed lute plucked with the fingers to […]