Crossword-Solution: REBAB
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REBAB | anagram | BABER, BARBE |
We have 12 clues for the answer “REBAB”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Arabian fiddle | 1 answer |
| Middle East fiddle | 1 answer |
| Middle Eastern fiddle | 1 answer |
| Predecessor of the violin. | 1 answer |
| Lute's relative | 2 answers |
| first violin | 2 answers |
| violin first | 2 answers |
| rebec | 5 answers |
| rebeck | 5 answers |
| sarod | 5 answers |
| Viol | 12 answers |
| lute | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
33 +2
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Sentences with REBAB (5)
Possibly an impulse was given the fiddle by the Moorish rebab, brought into Spain in the eighth century, but ancient Celtic bards had long before this used a bow instrument--the chrotta or crwth, derived from the lyre, which was introduced by the Romans in their colonizing expeditions.
The leader's instrument is the two-stringed fiddle (_rebab_), almost exactly the same as the Siamese _sie-saw_, which is also admirably named.
Shaw's "Travels in the East," appeared Lane's "Modern Egypt," wherein reference is made to an instrument named Rebab.
Having no certain knowledge of the form of the ancient Rebab, our views regarding its connection with the Rebec must necessarily be speculative, and mainly dependent upon the etymological thread which is drawn between the words Rebec and Rebab.
The references of John Gunn to the work are the earliest I have met with.] [Footnote 8: Mention is made by Ash-Shakandi, who wrote on Moorish music in Spain in the thirteenth century, of the Rebab.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1952–1995).