kanjira
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A South Indian frame drum, similar to the tambourine.
Example Sentences
- "Mr. Mahadevan also sang winningly (but often wordlessly) throughout the concert’s second half, alongside Mr. Hussain, the mandolinist U. Shrinivas and the percussionist V. Selvaganesh, whose specialty is the kanjira, a small hand drum with an expressive range of pitch."