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‖ oud|uːd|
Also ood, oude, ῾ūd.
[ad. Arab. ῾ūd, lit. ‘wood’.]
A form of lute or mandolin played principally in Arab countries.
1738T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant 270 They [sc. the Moors] have the Rebebb, a Violin of two Strings, which is played upon with a Bow: the A-Oude, a Bass double stringed Lute, bigger than our Viol, which is touched with a Plectrum. 1836E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians II. v. 69 The 'oód is a species of guitar, which is played with a plectrum. 1870C. Engel Descr. Catal. Musical Instruments S. Kensington Museum 8 The Oud..was brought by the Moors to Spain, where it is still known as the laud. Ibid., The Oud is generally provided with frets made of cords of gut. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 70/1 The modern Egyptian ‘῾ȗd’ is the direct descendant of the Arabic lute. 1931H. G. Farmer Stud. Oriental Mus. Instruments (Ser. 1) viii. 92 That the mizhar and the ‘ūd were distinct types of lute we know from several authorities. 1950P. Bowles in Penguin New Writing XXXIX. 10 As he passed over into the unlighted district he heard a few languid notes being strummed on an oud. 1957H. G. Farmer in New Oxf. Hist. Music I. 446 The greatest of all the instruments of Islamic peoples was the ῾ūd or lute. 1960New Yorker 16 July 86 A couple of Near Eastern love songs performed..on the oud, a large Egyptian stringed instrument that resembles a gourd sliced in half and that emits an urgent nasal, tinging sound. 1972J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) xiv. 252 He plucked and stroked those oud strings with the quill of an eagle feather. It's a lute-like instrument and has no frets like a guitar. 1976D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance 25/2 The earliest tuning employed [for the lute] is thought to have been a series of fourths, adopted from the 'ūd and still used by Arab players today. |