MBIRA

Meaning of MBIRA in English

n. African musical instrument with resonating box made of wood or a hollow gourd having tuned strips of wood or metal affixed to it which are plucked using the thumbs

Explanatory English dictionary bed edition. Толковый словарь английского языка Редакция bed. 2012

MBIRA — noun Etymology: Shona Date: circa 1911 an African musical instrument that consists of a wooden or gourd resonator and a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MBIRA — or thumb piano African musical instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal or bamboo tongues attached to a board …
Английский словарь Британика
MBIRA — emˈbirə, ə̇m-, -bēr- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Shona : an African musical instrument that consists of a gourd resonator, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MBIRA — /euhm bear"euh/ , n. a musical instrument of Africa usually made out of a gourd that serves as a resonating …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MBIRA — noun Etymology: Shona Date: circa 1911 : an African musical instrument that consists of a wooden or gourd resonator and …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MBIRA — [ (ə)m'bɪərə ] ■ noun another term for thumb piano . Origin C19: from Shona, prob. an alt. of rimba …
Concise Oxford English vocab
MBIRA — [mbi.ra] n [Shona] (ca. 1911): an African musical instrument that consists of a wooden or gourd resonator and a varying …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
MBIRA — n. or thumb piano African musical instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal or bamboo tongues attached to a …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
MBIRA — n. Pronunciation: em- ' bir- ə Function: noun Etymology: Shona Date: circa 1911 : an African musical instrument that consists …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
THUMB PIANO — noun Date: 1949 mbira
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
THUMB PIANO — noun : any of several musical instruments of African origin (as the kalimba, mbira, or zanza) that consist essentially of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
THUMB PIANO — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
KALIMBA — /keuh lim"beuh/ , n. mbira. [ 1950-55; the instrument's name in a number of Bantu languages of East Africa, e.g., …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
THUMB PIANO — n. kalimba, mbira, African musical instrument with resonating box made of wood or a hollow gourd having tuned strips of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
KALIMBA — n. thumb piano, mbira, African musical instrument with resonating box made of wood or a hollow gourd having tuned strips …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
THUMB PIANO — Date: 1949 : mbira
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
THUMB PIANO — [thumb piano] n (1949): mbira
Merriam-Webster English vocab
LAMELLAPHONE — also called mbira, likembe, kalimba, or thumb piano African musical instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal or bamboo …
Britannica English vocabulary
AFRICAN ARTS — the visual, performing, and literary arts of native Africa, particularly of sub-Saharan, or black, Africa. The arts include the media …
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