naker
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French nacaire, nacre (cognate with Italian nacchera, mediaeval Latin nacara), from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra, “drum”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈneɪkə/
Noun
naker (plural nakers)
- (music) A small drum, of Arabic origin, and the forebear of the European kettledrum.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- the Norman trumpets from the battlements […] , mingled with the deep and hollow clang of the nakers, (a species of kettle-drum,) retorted in notes of defiance the challenge of the enemy.
Translations
type of drum
Anagrams
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈnakər/ [ˈna.kər]
- Rhymes: -akər
- Syllabification: na‧ker
Noun
naker (plural naker-naker)
- syllabic abbreviation of tenaga kerja (“workforce”)
Further reading
- “naker” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.