جَنْكٌ
Root: جنك
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جَنْكٌ
[and جُنْكٌ] A certain [musical] instrument, which is beaten like the
عُود [or lute; namely, the Persian harp; two specimens of which are figured in Note 26 to Chap. iii. of my translation of the “Thousand and One Nights”]; mentioned by El-Khafájee in the Shifá el-Ghaleel; and often spoken of: it is an arabicized word; from the Persian چَنْگ: and applied [also] to the دفّ, [دُفّ or دَفّ, i. e., tambourine,] with which one plays.
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