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Where does “gayageum” come from?

gayageum (English) comes from Korean 가야금 — A long zither with bridges and between 12 and 25...

gayageum (English): A zither-like chordophone, most often with twelve...

Definitions

  1. A zither-like chordophone, most often with twelve...

Ancestry of “gayageum”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean가야금A long zither with bridges and between 12 and 25...
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