dhol
English
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]From Hindi ढोल (ḍhol), from Sanskrit ढोल (ḍhola).[1][2]
Noun
[edit]dhol (plural dhols)
- (music) A type of drum from India
- 2017, Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, Jonathan Cape, published 2017, page 106:
- On the TV news men in pink and saffron turbans are at the airport, jigging frantically to the music of dhols.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dhol”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- ^ “dhol”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
[edit]Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dhol
- Lenited form of dol.
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Hindi
- English terms derived from Hindi
- English terms derived from Sanskrit
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Musical instruments
- English terms with quotations
- en:Percussion instruments
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish non-lemma forms
- Irish mutated nouns
- Irish lenited forms