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• nakir

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

• IPA(key): /ˈneɪkə/

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.

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)

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈnakər/ [ˈna.kər]

• Rhymes: -akər

• Syllabification: na‧ker

naker (plural **naker-naker)

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

• “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