‖ kiˈtar rare.
Also kittar.
[Arab. qītār, a. Gr. κιθάρα cithara.]
A guitar or lyre.
| c 1640 Shirley Capt. Underwit i. in Bullen O. Pl. (1883) II. 330, I can play well o' the kittar. 1817 Moore Lalla R., Parad. & Peri Introd., Striking a few careless but melancholy chords on his kitar. |