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A sitar (Sanskrit : सितार; Punjabi : ਸਿਤਾਰ) is a South-Asian musical instrument.
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument flourished under the Mughals, and it is named after a Persian instrument called the setar. The sitar flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries and arrived at its present form in 18th-century India. It derives its distinctive timbre and resonance from sympathetic strings, bridge design, a long hollow neck and a gourd-shaped resonance chamber. In appearance, the sitar is similar to the tanpura, except that it has frets.
Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language with more than 100 million native speakers in the Indian subcontinent and spread with the Punjabi diaspora worldwide. It is the native language of the Punjabi people, an ethnic group of the cultural region of Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, which extends from northwest India through eastern Pakistan.
Sitar may also refer to:
- Jeff Sitar (locksmith), a world champion safecracker
- Lord Sitar (musician), stage name for Big Jim Sullivan (1941-2012)
- Lord Sitar (album), 1968 sitar music album by Big Jim Sullivan (1941-2012)
- Sitar, Iran (disambiguation), (Persian : سيتار in Iran)
- Sitar, Iran, in Sand-e Mir Suiyan Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province; a village
- Sitar-e Abdol Rahim, also called "Sītār", in Sand-e Mir Suiyan Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran; a village
Sitar-e Abdol Rahim is a village in Sand-e Mir Suiyan Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 140, in 31 families.
- SITAR, a French aircraft company which manufactuered the SITAR GY-110 Sher Khan
- Swedish Indian IT Resources AB (SITAR), a division of Tata Consultancy Services
Jeff Sitar is a locksmith living in Clifton, New Jersey who has specialized as a safe-cracker and who has won the Lockmaster's International Safecracking Competition eight times. He is known for the opening of a safe on board USS Ling, and for opening a highly classified safe on board a ship during the Gulf War.
Sitar, Iran is a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran.
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi, is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and some other regions which historically were Persianate societies and considered part of Greater Iran. It is written right to left in the Persian alphabet, a modified variant of the Arabic script, which itself evolved from the Aramaic alphabet.
