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lanchara

lanchara is the alternative form of lancaran.

Meaning of lancaran

Noun

lancaran (plural lancarans)

  1. (historical) A kind of sailing ship used in Maritime Southeast Asia, propelled by oars and sails with two quarter rudders, one on either side of the stern.
  2. In gamelan music, a cycle of 16 beats in the sequence TWTN TPTN TPTN TPTG, where T indicates the strike of the ketuk, P the kempul, N the kenong, G the simultaneous gong and kenong, and W the wela, the pause where the kempul is omitted.

Forms of lanchara

plurallancharas

Questions about lanchara

What is lanchara the alternative form of?
Lanchara is the alternative form of lancaran.

Words near lanchara in the dictionary

  1. lanch
  2. lancha
  3. Lanchan
  4. lanchang
  5. lanchangs
  6. lanchara
  7. lancharas
  8. lanchas
  9. lanched
  10. lanches
  11. Lanchester

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lanchara (page history and authors); lancaran (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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