Word.ws English Dictionary

guembris

guembris is the plural of guembri.

Meaning of guembri

Noun

guembri (plural guembris)

  1. A kind of lute used by Berber musicians.
    • A mu'alim (master musician) directs his musicians even as he also actively participates by playing an instrument known as the guembri to help draw the attention of the spirit world. The guembri, a three-stringed lute plucked with the fingers to […]2016, Abdelmajid Hannoum, Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa, Routledge, →ISBN, page 137
    Synonyms:
    sintir

Questions about guembris

What is guembris the plural of?
Guembris is the plural of guembri.

Words near guembris in the dictionary

  1. gueltas
  2. Guelwongo
  3. guemal
  4. guemals
  5. guembri
  6. guembris
  7. Guendolen
  8. guenon
  9. guenons
  10. Guenther
  11. Guenthers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: guembris (page history and authors); guembri (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “guembris.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/guembris. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.