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dubki

dubki noun: a type of drum from Eastern India and Bangladesh.

Noun

dubki (plural dubkis)

  1. A type of drum from Eastern India and Bangladesh.
    • As Paban sings, he twangs a khomok hand drum or thunders away at the dubki, a sort of rustic tambourine.2009 September 11, William Dalrymple, “Singing and dancing with the Bauls of Bengal”, in Guardian
    • The Lal Bazar area is still of some significance, for Kolkata is known for its excellent musical instrument production, especially its sitars, sarods, surbahars, tanpuras, violins, tablas, and harmoniums, as well as many so-called folk-music instruments, among them: thumbas, bongos, dotara, djembe...2018, Lars-Christian Koch, “String Instruments as Urban Icons and Rural Products”, in Sebastian Klotz, Philip V. Bohlman, Lars-Christian Koch, editors, Sounding Cities. Auditory Transformations in...

Forms of dubki

pluraldubkis

Origin of dubki

From Bengali ডুবকি (ḍuboki), apparently equalling Hindi डुबकी (ḍubkī, “dive”) instead of Persian تنبک (tombak, “drum, tombak”).

Questions about dubki

What does dubki mean?
Dubki means a type of drum from Eastern India and Bangladesh.
What part of speech is dubki?
Dubki is a noun.
What is the plural of dubki?
The plural of dubki is dubkis.

Words near dubki in the dictionary

  1. dubitation
  2. dubitations
  3. dubitatioun
  4. dubitative
  5. dubitatively
  6. dubki
  7. dubkis
  8. Dublandia
  9. duble
  10. dublet
  11. dublets

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