maqam

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maqam

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Ultimately from Arabic مَقَام (maqām). Doublet of mugham.

noun maqams · maqamat · maqaam

A modal structure characterizing the art of music of countries in North Africa, West Asia and Central Asia. Elsewhere in the evening the young Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, who has studied both jazz and traditional Arabic maqam patterns and combines them in modal pieces for improvisers, demonstrated with his sextet (including an oud and a santoor, the Persian hammered dulcimer) how hungry jazz s
Similar: Nahavand

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noun modal structure

日本語	マカーム
中文	木卡姆 Mùkǎmǔ
हिन्दी	मुक़ाम muqām, मुकाम mukām, मकाम makām
Ελληνικά	μακάμι makámi, μακάμ makám
العربية	مَقَام maqām

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@misc{maqam_2026,
  title = {maqam},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/maqam},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}