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بَمٌّ

Root: بم

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بَمٌّ [The bass in music; used in this sense in the present day: or particularly the bass notes of the lute: in this sense F seems to have understood the saying of ISd that] the بَمّ of the lute is well known: (M, K: [in the CK, البَمَّ مِنَ العُوْدِ او الوَتَرِ الخ is erroneously put for البَمُّ مِنَ العُودِ مٓ أَوِ الوَتَرُ الخ:]) or it is the thick [or bass] chord of the lute: the word is foreign: [in Persian بَمْ:] Az says that it is not Arabic.
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