qenet
/kɨɲtɨ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A kind of secular musical scale developed by the Amhara ethnic group of Ethiopia.
Example Sentences
- "Qenet is an interval set which can be loosely translated as mode."
- "Almost invariably the music is in a pentatonic scale, most commonly the qenet mode of the central highlands, which is characterized by long intervals between notes and takes four main forms, the best known being tizita."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: ቅኝት