oud

American  

[ood] / ud /

noun

1. a musical instrument of the Middle East and northern Africa belonging to the lute family.

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oud British  

/ uːd /

noun

1. an Arabic stringed musical instrument resembling a lute or mandolin

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Etymology

Origin of oud

1730–40; < Arabic ʿūd literally, wood; see lute ¹

Example Sentences

Fittingly, like the ambergris in Memento Mori, the scent of Oud is the scent of a wound.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022

In Cairo, he founded the House of the Oud, a school dedicated to teaching the instrument to new generations.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2022

The book covers all the transformative moments of Johnson’s life and career: the emotionally troubled Harvard philosophy student who became enamored of the work of early Dutch modernist Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2019

Oud and Mart Stam and the Swiss-French modernist pioneer Le Corbusier, among others, the exhibition helped establish the so-called International Style of modern architecture.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2016

See Valentyn’s account, descriptive and historical, of “Malakka,” in his Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, part v, book vi, pp.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander