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Luqma (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?
plural: Luqqam; (with) definite article: ?

original: ?

bite / mouthful

upper part of chanter (without fingerholes), lodging the reed

Identical types: 2

Definition according to Elsner/Jabès (NB: English interpretation ws): "short pieces of pipe, with wax-smeared upper ends, against which the players put their lips".

Fumm


Sources

Elsner, Jürgen & Jabès, Andrée: Der Arġūl. In: Collaer [et al.]: Nordafrika (1983), p.44 (Elsner [!].