lute

English

Wikipedia

A man playing a lute

Pronunciation

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

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).

Noun

lute (plural lutes)

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

Related terms

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

Translations

stringed instrument

Albanian: llautë (sq) Arabic: عود (ar) (ʿūd) m. Armenian: ջնար (hy) (ǰnar), վին (hy) (vin) Belarusian: лютня (be) (ljútnja) f. Bulgarian: лютня (bg) (ljútnja) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 魯特琴 (zh), 鲁特琴 (zh) (lǔtèqín) Chinese Characters: 阮 Croatian: lutnja (hr) f. Czech: loutna (cs) f. Dutch: luit (nl) f. Esperanto: liuto (eo) Estonian: lauto (et) Finnish: luuttu (fi) French: luth (fr) m. Georgian: ბარბითი (ka) (barbit‘i) German: Laute (de) f. Greek: λαούτο (el) (laúto) n., λαγούτο (el) (lagúto) n. Ancient: πανδούρα (grc) (pandoúra) f. Hebrew: לאוטה (he) f. Hungarian: lant (hu) Icelandic: lúta (is) f. Irish: liúit (ga) f.

Italian: liuto (it) m. Japanese: リュート (ja) (ryūto) Korean: 류트 (ko) (ryuteu) Kurdish: عوود Latin: lyra (la) f. Macedonian: лејта (mk) (léjta) f. Norwegian: lutt m. Occitan: laüt (oc) Persian: لوت (fa) (lut), بربط (fa) (barbat) Polish: lutnia (pl) f. Portuguese: alaúde (pt) m. Russian: лютня (ru) (ljútnja) f. Sanskrit: तन्त्री (sa) (tantrī) Slovene: lutnja (sl) f. Spanish: laúd (es) m. Swahili: gambusi (sw) Swedish: luta (sv) c. Thai: พิณ (th) (pin), กระจับปี่ (th) (gràjàp bpèe) Turkish: ut (tr), lavta (tr) Ukrainian: лютня (uk) (ljútnja) f. Vietnamese: đàn luýt (vi) Volapük: lüt (vo)

See also

barbiton, barbitos guembri guqin mandola mandolin

oud pipa rebab samisen, shamisen theorbo

Etymology 2

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

Noun

lute (plural lutes)

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

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• tule

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Portuguese

Verb

lute

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of verb lutar.
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of verb lutar.
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of verb lutar.
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of verb lutar.