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krar

five- or six-stringed bowl-shaped lyre from Eritrea and Ethiopia
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krar

Summary

krar ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (118 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • krar is a type of Plucked string instrument[2].
  • krar is a type of bowl lyre[3].
  • krar's Commons category is recorded as Krar[4].
  • krar's country of origin is recorded as Ethiopia[5].
  • krar's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 321.21[6].
  • krar's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[7].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include Plucked string instrument[2] and bowl lyre[3].

Why It Matters

krar ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (118 views/month).[1] krar has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8]

Related Entities

Ethiopia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . omeka1.grinnell.edu. omeka1.grinnell.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage
    Country of origin → —
    Country of origin → Ethiopia
    Subclass of → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007373448105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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