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daruan

daruan noun: a bass lute-like four-stringed chordophone of the ruan family of Chinese traditional instruments.

Noun

daruan (plural daruan)

  1. A bass lute-like four-stringed chordophone of the ruan family of Chinese traditional instruments.

Forms of daruan

pluraldaruan

Origin of daruan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 大阮 (dàruǎn).

Questions about daruan

What does daruan mean?
Daruan means a bass lute-like four-stringed chordophone of the ruan family of Chinese traditional instruments.
What part of speech is daruan?
Daruan is a noun.
What is the plural of daruan?
The plural of daruan is daruan.

Words near daruan in the dictionary

  1. dartwhites
  2. darty
  3. dartying
  4. Dartys
  5. Daru
  6. daruan
  7. Darug
  8. darughachi
  9. darughachis
  10. darughah
  11. darughahs

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