Usually means: African musical instrument, plucked idiophone.
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  1. kalimba: Merriam-Webster
  2. kalimba: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kalimba: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kalimba: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Kalimba, kalimba: Wordnik
  6. kalimba: Wiktionary
  7. kalimba: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. kalimba: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. kalimba: Dictionary.com
  10. Kalimba (Mr. Scruff song), Kalimba (disambiguation), Kalimba (singer), Kalimba (video game), Kalimba: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. kalimba: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kalimba: The Folk File

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▸ noun:  (music) A type of thumb piano, similar to the mbira.

Similar:
akalimba, malimba, mbila, mbira, array mbira, likembe, ambira, sansula, sansa, marimba, more...

Types:
African, Sanza, Mbira, Thumb Piano, more...

Phrases:
Kalimba de Luna, more...

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Similar:
akalimba, malimba, mbila, mbira, array mbira, likembe, ambira, sansula, sansa, marimba, more...

Types:
African, Sanza, Mbira, Thumb Piano, more...

Phrases:
Kalimba de Luna, more...



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