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yatga

yatga noun: a traditional plucked bridge zither played in Mongolia.

yatga: a traditional plucked bridge zither played in Mongolia
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Noun

yatga (plural yatgas)

  1. A traditional plucked bridge zither played in Mongolia.
    • In Old Mongolia, the yatga was used in courts to entertain the aristocracy and was also played by the aristocracy.2001, Carole Pegg, Mongolian Music, Dance, & Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities, →ISBN
    • Traditionally yatga performances were reserved only for monasteries and the court, and playing the instrument was considered a sacrosanct rite. This taboo changed over time as new forms of the yatga appeared, ranging from a ten-stringed yatga that anyone could play to a yatga with twenty-one...2009, Timothy Michael May, Culture and Customs of Mongolia, →ISBN, page 89

Examples of yatga in a sentence

  • Traditionally yatga performances were reserved only for monasteries and the court, and playing the instrument was considered a sacrosanct rite.2009, Timothy Michael May, Culture and Customs of Mongolia, →ISBN, page 89:
  • The second and fourth manuscripts have musical notation for the ten-stringed yatga (Erdenechimeg and Shagdarsüren 1995).2017, Robert C. Provine, Yosihiko Tokumaru, J. Lawrence Witzleben, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: East Asia, →ISBN:

Forms of yatga

pluralyatgas

Origin of yatga

From Mongolian ятга (jatga) / ᠶᠠᠲᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (yatuɣ-a).

Questions about yatga

What does yatga mean?
Yatga means a traditional plucked bridge zither played in Mongolia.
How do you use yatga in a sentence?
Traditionally yatga performances were reserved only for monasteries and the court, and playing the instrument was considered a sacrosanct rite.
What part of speech is yatga?
Yatga is a noun.
What is the plural of yatga?
The plural of yatga is yatgas.

Words near yatga in the dictionary

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