Lute

Noun

 * 1) A fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl shaped body or soundbox.

Related terms

 * archlute
 * lutanist, lutenist
 * lutherie
 * luthier
 * lutist

Noun

 * 1) Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.

Verb

 * 1) To fix or fasten something with lute.
 * 2) * 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 179:
 * To protect everything till it dried, a man [...] luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

Adjectives for Lute
short-stringed; warbling; enfeebling; fragile; long-neglected; ravishing.

Thesaurus
Dobro guitar, F-hole guitar, Spanish guitar, archlute, balalaika, banjo, banjo-uke, banjo-ukulele, banjo-zither, banjorine, banjuke, bass guitar, centerhole guitar, concert guitar, electric guitar, guitar, mando-bass, mando-cello, mandola, mandolin, mandolute, mandore, oud, pandora, pandura, samisen, sitar, steel guitar, tamboura, theorbo, troubadour fiddle, uke, ukulele

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: loot
 * Homophones: loot
 * Homophones: loot

Etymology 1
From lut: (modern luth:), from  leüt:, probably from  laüt:, from  عود: (probably representing an  or North African pronunciation).

Etymology 2
From lut:, ultimately from  lutum:.

Noun

 * Albanian: llautë
 * Arabic: (ʕūd)
 * Armenian: ջնար (ǰnar), վին (vin)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 魯特琴, 鲁特琴 (lǔtè qín)
 * Chinese Characters: 阮
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πανδούρα (pandoura)
 * Modern: ,
 * Hebrew: לאוטה
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 류트 (lyuteu)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: лејта
 * Norwegian: lutt
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: (lût),  (barbat)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: gambusi
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (pin),  (gràjàp bpèe)
 * Turkish:, lavta
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: lüt

Anagrams

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