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sarod

sarod noun: a fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music.

sarod: a fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music
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Noun

sarod (plural sarods)

  1. A fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music.
    • More surprising are segments showing Mr. Bream and friends starting an evening at a pub and then repairing to his home to play jazz, and a 1962 improvisation with the sarod player Ali Akbar Khan in which Mr. Bream picks up Mr. Khan’s themes with an effortlessness and a fluency that say a lot about...2007 July 10, Allan Kozinn, “Capturing a Master of the Guitar in the Act of Playing and Musing”, in New York Times

sarod meaning in Tamil

sarod in Tamil

sarod
சரபத்து carapattu

Forms of sarod

pluralsarods

Origin of sarod

Borrowed from Hindi सरोद (sarod).

Words formed from sarod

Questions about sarod

What does sarod mean?
Sarod means a fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music.
What is sarod in Tamil?
Sarod in Tamil is சரபத்து (carapattu). See Sarod meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sarod?
Sarod is a noun.
What is the plural of sarod?
The plural of sarod is sarods.

Words near sarod in the dictionary

  1. sarns
  2. sarnt
  3. sarnts
  4. Sarny
  5. Saro
  6. sarod
  7. sarode
  8. sarodes
  9. sarodist
  10. sarodists
  11. sarodiya

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sarod (page history and authors); சரபத்து (Tamil) (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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