naker

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Alternative forms

• nakir

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪkə/

Noun

naker (plural nakers)

1. (music) A small drum, of Arabic origin, and the forebear of the European kettledrum.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     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.

Translations

type of drum

Catalan: nacra (ca) f Finnish: naqqara Gujarati: નગારું (nagārũ) Hindi: नगाड़ा (hi) (nagāṛā) Malayalam: നഗാരം (nagāraṁ), നകാരം (ml) (nakāraṁ) Nepali: नगरा (nagarā) Odia: ନାଗରା (or) (nāgarā) Punjabi: ਨਗਾਰਾ (nagārā), ਨਗਾੜਾ (nagāṛā) Russian: нагара́ (ru) (nagará) Tamil: நகரா (ta) (nakarā)

Anagrams

• Karen, Kārēn, knare, ranke, karen, nerka, Krane, anker

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈnakər/ [ˈna.kər]
• Rhymes: -akər
• Syllabification: na‧ker

Noun

naker (plural naker-naker)

1. syllabic abbreviation of tenaga kerja (“workforce”)

Further reading

• “naker”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016