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qenet

/kɨɲtɨ/

qenet noun: a kind of secular musical scale developed by the Amhara ethnic group of Ethiopia.

Noun

qenet (plural qenets)

  1. A kind of secular musical scale developed by the Amhara ethnic group of Ethiopia.
    • Qenet is an interval set which can be loosely translated as mode.1997, Katsuyoshi Fukui, Eisei Kurimoto, Masayoshi Shigeta, editors, Ethiopia in Broader Perspective: Papers of the XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Kyoto, 12-17 December 1997...
    • Almost invariably the music is in a pentatonic scale, most commonly the qenet mode of the central highlands, which is characterized by long intervals between notes and takes four main forms, the best known being tizita.2015, The Rough Guide to Ethiopia, Penguin, →ISBN, page 173

Forms of qenet

pluralqenets

Origin of qenet

Borrowed from Amharic ቅኝት (ḳəñt)

Questions about qenet

What does qenet mean?
Qenet means a kind of secular musical scale developed by the Amhara ethnic group of Ethiopia.
What part of speech is qenet?
Qenet is a noun.
How do you pronounce qenet?
Qenet is pronounced /kɨɲtɨ/.
What is the plural of qenet?
The plural of qenet is qenets.

Words near qenet in the dictionary

  1. Qelt
  2. qeltite
  3. Qemant
  4. Qena
  5. qene
  6. qenet
  7. qenets
  8. Qenite
  9. Qenites
  10. qepik
  11. Qeqertarsuaq

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