rubab

lute-like musical instrument
Thing type_of_musical_instrument Q1640934
rubab
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rubab

Summary

rubab is a type of musical instrument[1]. rubab draws 343 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #96 of 399).[2]

Key Facts

  • rubab is in the country of Afghanistan[3].
  • rubab's image is recorded as Rabab ca. 1885 Indian (north), Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg[4].
  • rubab's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[5].
  • rubab's subclass of is recorded as necked bowl lute sounded by plectrum[6].
  • rubab's Commons category is recorded as Rubab[7].
  • rubab's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025v1_y[8].
  • rubab's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300222162[9].
  • rubab's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as 7e42e637-c7b4-422c-ad56-f7fafbd961bb[10].
  • rubab's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/rabab[11].
  • rubab's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 321.321-6[12].
  • rubab's different from is recorded as rebab[13].
  • rubab's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[14].
  • rubab's MIMO instrument ID is recorded as 3429[15].
  • rubab's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[16].
  • rubab's Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID is recorded as mp2013015586[17].
  • rubab's SEKO ID is recorded as 00844[18].
  • rubab's UNESCO ICH ID is recorded as RL/02143[19].
  • rubab's UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID is recorded as mra[20].
  • rubab's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 42002[21].

Why It Matters

rubab draws 343 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #96 of 399).[2] rubab has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] rubab is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Q14005. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . ich.unesco.org. Retrieved . ich.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_rubab_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{rubab}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/rubab}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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