abeng

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Jamaican Creole abeng, from Akan abɛŋ (“animal horn; wind instrument”) (Twi). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbɛŋ/, /æ-/ (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbɛŋ/, /æ-/ (Caribbean) IPA(key): /æˈbɛŋ/, /ˈæbɛŋ/ === Noun === abeng (plural abengs) (Jamaica, music) An animal (usually bull) horn used by the Maroon people of Jamaica as a musical instrument; and also (historical) formerly by slaveholders to summon slaves to canefields and by the Maroon army to communicate cryptic messages over great distances. ==== Hypernyms ==== wind instrument ==== Coordinate terms ==== sneng ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === abeng on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abeng”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3. === Anagrams === Bange, began, benga == Jamaican Creole == === Etymology === From Akan abɛŋ (Twi). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /æˈbɛŋ/, /ˈæbɛŋ/ === Noun === abeng (plural abeng dem, quantified abeng) (music) An abeng (horn of the Jamaican Maroons). === References ===