Definition of "pipa" [pi•pa]

• A pear-shaped plucked lute from China. (noun)

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• "Chew quickly recognized Tyler's talent and recruited him to join her Purple Silk music program, where students learn to sing Chinese songs and play traditional instruments such as a two-string violin called an erhu, a four-stringed lute known as a pipa and a bamboo flute called a dizi."
• "(known as pipa in Chinese) piled up at Mercat St. Joseph in Barcelona. word of the month (not quite sure exactly which month this was)."
• "Jane Ira Bloom played soprano saxophone I have a thing for the saxophone which explains my crush on Jimmy Sommers and Min Xiao-Fen plays the Chinese pipa which is also an instrument that kind of looks like a weird guitar."