"shamisen" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈʃæmɪsɛn/ Forms: shamisens [plural], shamisen [plural]
Etymology: From Japanese 三味線 (shamisen). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|ja|三味線|tr=shamisen}} Japanese 三味線 (shamisen) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|shamisen}} shamisen (plural shamisens or shamisen)
  1. (music) A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute. Wikipedia link: shamisen Categories (topical): Musical instruments, String instruments, Three Synonyms: jamisen, jabisen (english: used mainly in reference to archaic forms of the instrument from the Ryukyu Islands), sangen, samisen, syamisen Derived forms: shamisenist Translations (a Japanese musical instrument): شَامِيسِين (šāmīsīn) (Arabic), شامیسئن [Arabic] (Azerbaijani), سامیسئن [Arabic] (Azerbaijani), шамисен [Cyrillic] (Azerbaijani), сјамисен [Cyrillic] (Azerbaijani), şamisen [Roman] (Azerbaijani), syamisen [Roman] (Azerbaijani), 三味線 /三味线 (sānwèixiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), ŝamiseno (Esperanto), shamisen (Finnish), jabisen [masculine] (French), seamasan [masculine] (Irish), 三味線 (shamisen) (alt: しゃみせん) (Japanese), 三味線 (samisen) (alt: さみせん) [rare] (Japanese), 샤미센 (syamisen) (Korean), शामिसेन (śāmisen) (Marathi), сямисэ́н (sjamisɛ́n) [masculine] (Russian), şamisen (Turkish), đàn tam (Vietnamese)

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