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kantela

kantela is the alternative form of kantele.

Meaning of kantele

Noun

kantele (plural kanteles)

  1. A plucked string instrument (a zither) of the Baltic psaltery family, traditionally with five strings but now more widely varying, originating in the folk music of Finland, where it is seen as a national symbol.
    • With his fingers Väinämöinen played / with its strings the kantele rang out […].1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLIV

Forms of kantela

pluralkantelas

Questions about kantela

What is kantela the alternative form of?
Kantela is the alternative form of kantele.

Words near kantela in the dictionary

  1. kantars
  2. Kante
  3. Kantean
  4. Kanteans
  5. Kantei
  6. kantela
  7. kantelas
  8. kantele
  9. kanteles
  10. kanten
  11. kantenji

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kantela (page history and authors); kantele (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.

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