kokle

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kokle (plural kokles)

1. A dove of southern Asia
   • Footnote to Kishen Kower in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's The Zenana. Quoted from Emma Roberts, Oriental Scenes:

     When listening to the song of the kokle, its melancholy cadences, and abrupt termination, always impressed my mind with the idea, that the broken strains were snatches of some mournful story, too full of wo to be told at once.

From Latvian kokle.

kokle (plural kokles)

1. A stringed instrument from the Baltic region, especially Latvia

• kokles (obsolete)

• chordophone

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kokle

1. inflection of kokeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

kokle f (5th declension)

1. A Latvian plucked string instrument (chordophone).

• → English: kokle