jabisen

From Japanese 蛇皮線 (jabisen, literally “snakeskin strings”).

jabisen (plural jabisens)

1. (music) Alternative spelling of jamisen
   • 1973 June, “OKINAWA, The Islands That Fortune Overlooked”, in The East, volume 9, number 5, Tokyo: East Publications, →ISSN, page 48, columns 1–2:

     Introduced into China from Central Asia and thence to Ryūkyū in the very late 14th century, the jabisen gives a special flavor to the folk culture of Okinawa.

• Basenji

Borrowed from Japanese 蛇皮線 (literally “snakeskin strings”).

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.bi.sɛn/, /dʒa.bi.sɛn/

jabisen m (plural jabisens)

1. (music) shamisen

jabisen

1. Rōmaji transcription of じゃびせん