kulintang

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Noun

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kulintang (uncountable)

  1. An ancient form of instrumental music of Southeast Asia, played on a row of small, horizontally-laid melodic gongs accompanied by larger suspended gongs and drums.
    • 2007 April 27, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
      “Electric Kulintang,” her percussive collaboration with Mr. Rodriguez, adds a contemporary sheen to the chiming kulintang music of the Philippines.

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kulintaŋ. Compare Tboli klintang, Yakan kwintangan, Indonesian kolintang, Indonesian kelenteng, Javanese ꦏ꧀ꦭꦺꦤ꧀ꦛꦺꦁ (klénthéng).

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Noun

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kulintáng (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜎᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜅ᜔)

  1. (music) kulintang

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Further reading

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  • kulintang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kulintaŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI