oud en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /uːd/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Arabic عُود (ʕūd). Doublet of lute.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.
Oriental music is chiefly unrhythmical [...]. It is mostly rendered by a solo voice with accompaniment of the Ud, a kind of lyre or mandolin, or Kanun, resembling a guitar.
1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 25:Common throughout the Arab and Persian world, the oud is a fretless short-neck lute with a pear-shaped, flat top, rounded back, and a peghead characteristically bent backwards at a very sharp angle. The oud's origins are unknown, although myths attribute either celestial or magical beginnings, it more likely came from ancient Persia.
2010, Randy Raine-Reusch, Play The World: The 101 Instrument Primer, Mel Bay Publications, →ISBN, page 22:
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(countable, qualifier:perfumery, uncountable) Agarwood, in particular the noble rot of Aquilaria trees used to make perfumes.
The recent fashion for oud (the noble rot of Aquilaria trees) took flight when YSL released M7, where the oud accord was center stage. It came with an advertising campaign featuring a hairy naked guy, a sight rated “beautiful” by my co-author. Real oud is complex material, with honey, tobacco, leaf, minty-fresh and castoreum animalic notes all mixed together.
2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, “M7”, in Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 233:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ouds | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| 'ud | alternative | lexicographic | |
| oudh | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (55)
gdq طرب (Arabic plucked string instrument) · sw udi (Arabic plucked string instrument) · az ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · hy ուդ (Arabic plucked string instrument) · hi औद (Arabic plucked string instrument) · hu úd (Arabic plucked string instrument) · uk уд (Arabic plucked string instrument) · cmn 烏德琴 /乌德琴 (Arabic plucked string instrument) · oc ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · syc ܥܘܕ (Arabic plucked string instrument) · ckb عوود (Arabic plucked string instrument) · arz عُود (Arabic plucked string instrument) · pa ਊਦ (Arabic plucked string instrument) · el ούτια (Arabic plucked string instrument) · ca ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · ko 우드 (Arabic plucked string instrument) · de Ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · de Ud (agarwood) · sk úd (Arabic plucked string instrument) · be уд (Arabic plucked string instrument) · pl ud (agarwood) · fi ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · bg уд (Arabic plucked string instrument) · so kaban (Arabic plucked string instrument) · yue 烏德琴 /乌德琴 (Arabic plucked string instrument) · nl oed (Arabic plucked string instrument) · tr ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · lad ut (Arabic plucked string instrument) · uga 𐎓𐎄 (Arabic plucked string instrument) · pt ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · tr ut (Arabic plucked string instrument) · ja ウード (Arabic plucked string instrument) · et uud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · pl ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · es ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · he עוּד (Arabic plucked string instrument) · ru уд (Arabic plucked string instrument) · el ούτι (Arabic plucked string instrument) · es laúd árabe (Arabic plucked string instrument) · afb عُود (Arabic plucked string instrument) · eo udo (Arabic plucked string instrument) · sh оуд (Arabic plucked string instrument) · lt ūdas (Arabic plucked string instrument) · cmn 烏德 /乌德 (Arabic plucked string instrument) · cs úd (Arabic plucked string instrument) · so cuud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · ar عُود (Arabic plucked string instrument) · th อู๊ด (Arabic plucked string instrument) · sh oud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · kmr ûd (Arabic plucked string instrument) · mk уд (Arabic plucked string instrument) · uz ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · gl ud (Arabic plucked string instrument) · fa عود (Arabic plucked string instrument) · arc ܥܘܕ (Arabic plucked string instrument)