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# sitar

«sitar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a musical instrument from India with a long wooden neck…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sitar, sitars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sitar is a musical instrument from India with a long wooden neck, a round body made from a gourd, and many strings, played by plucking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitar/#m1)

2) It makes a bright, buzzing, ringing sound and is used in Indian classical music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitar/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons the sitar is a string instrument from India; besides the strings you play, it has extra strings underneath that ring along (sympathetic strings). Ravi Shankar was a famous sitar player, and the Beatles used a sitar in some songs. Phrases: play the sitar, sitar music.

### examples

- The sitar has a long neck and curved metal frets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitar/#x1)
- Ravi Shankar played the sitar all over the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitar/#x2)
- The sitar's strings buzzed and shimmered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitar/#x3)
- We listened to sitar music during our lesson on India. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitar/#x4)
- You pluck a sitar with a wire pick worn on the finger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitar/#x5)
- George Harrison of the Beatles learned to play the sitar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitar/#x6)
- The sitar player sat on the floor with the instrument resting on his foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitar/#x7)

### note

Plural sitars. Stress on the second syllable: si-TAR. Do not confuse with guitar, although both are plucked string instruments. A sitar often has about 18 to 21 strings.

### In the corpora

- [The sitar has sympathetic strings that nobody plucks; they vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sitar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sitar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.