The lute's name is an Arabic word?

Across the medieval Islamic world, musicians played the oud, a pear-shaped instrument whose name al-ud means the wood. When the oud travelled into Europe it became the lute, and even the English word lute descends from that Arabic name, while the bowed rebab is among the ancestors of the violin family.

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