akonting

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Jola-Fonyi.

Noun

akonting (plural akontings)

  1. A folk lute of the Jola people of West Africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string.
    • 2009 March 2, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      But there’s no less spirit in the singing and thumb piano playing of Ruth Akello, an unheralded Ugandan, or in the banjo-like akonting playing of the Jatta family, in Gambia.

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

References

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.