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shamisens

shamisens is the plural of shamisen.

Meaning of shamisen

Noun

shamisen (plural shamisens or shamisen)

  1. A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.
    Synonyms:
    jamisen, jabisen, sangen

Questions about shamisens

What is shamisens the plural of?
Shamisens is the plural of shamisen.

Words near shamisens in the dictionary

  1. Shamir
  2. Shamis
  3. shamisen
  4. shamisenist
  5. shamisenists
  6. shamisens
  7. shamixanthone
  8. shamixanthones
  9. shamiyanah
  10. shamiyanahs
  11. Shamkhani

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shamisens (page history and authors); shamisen (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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