baglama

See also: bağlama

English

Alternative forms

• bağlama

Etymology

From Turkish bağlama, from bağlamak (“to tie”).

Noun

baglama (plural baglamas)

1. A seven-stringed musical instrument in various cultures around the eastern Mediterranean, with a pear-shaped body, and strings in double or sometimes triple courses.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 945:

     At the end of the room, as if behind an iconastasis of song, oud, baglamas, and a kind of hammered dulcimer called a santouri were being played without a break.

Synonyms

• saz

Derived terms

• elektro-baglama

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

References

• 2013. Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians. Timothy Rice. Pg. 196.