rabab
See also: rabâb
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rabab (plural rababs)
- An Arabian stringed instrument, played by plucking or with a bow.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 846:
- The hired musicians—rabab, hand drums, and ghärawnay, or Chinese flute—had learned “Kalinka” and “Ochi Chorniya”