oud

Noun

1. A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.
   • Oriental music is chiefly unrhythmical [...]. It is mostly rendered by a solo voice with accompaniment of the Ud, a kind of lyre or mandolin, or Kanun, resembling a guitar. - 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music:...
   • Common throughout the Arab and Persian world, the oud is a fretless short-neck lute with a pear-shaped, flat top, rounded back, and a peghead characteristically bent backwards at a very sharp angle. The oud's origins...

   Coordinate Terms: sintir

2. Agarwood, in particular the noble rot of Aquilaria trees used to make perfumes.
   • The recent fashion for oud (the noble rot of Aquilaria trees) took flight when YSL released M7, where the oud accord was center stage. It came with an advertising campaign featuring a hairy naked guy, a sight rated...