lute

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Related terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 See also 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.2 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /luːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophones: loot

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Provençal laüt, from Arabic العود (al-‘ūd), “‘wood’”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation).

[edit] Noun

lute (plural lutes)

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

[edit] Related terms

• archlute
• lutanist, lutenist
• lutherie
• luthier
• lutist

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

barbiton, barbitos guembri guqin mandola mandolin

oud pipa rebab samisen, shamisen theorbo

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“‘mud’”).

[edit] Noun

lute (plural lutes)

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

[edit] Verb

to lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

1. To fix or fasten something with lute.
   • 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.