a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum
samisen
Silbentrennung
sa·mi·sen
Aussprache
Etymologie
() Japanese 三味線 (さみせん), from Chinese 三弦 sānxián, from sān ‘three’ + xián ‘string’.