naker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small drum, of Arabic origin, and the forebear of the European kettledrum.
    — the Norman trumpets from the battlements […], mingled with the deep and hollow clang of the nakers, (a species of kettle-drum,) retorted in notes of defiance the challenge of the enemy.

词形变化

nakers plural nakir alternative

词源

Borrowed from Old French nacaire, nacre (cognate with Italian nacchera, mediaeval Latin nacara), ultimately derived from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra, “drum”).
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