samisen, shamisen
(noun) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shamisen (plural shamisens or shamisen)
(musical instrument) A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.
• jamisen, jabisen (used mainly in reference to archaic forms of the instrument from the Ryukyu Islands)
• sangen
Source: Wiktionary
3 February 2025
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
