naker

• nakir

From Old French nacaire, nacre (cognate with Italian nacchera, mediaeval Latin nacara), from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra, “drum”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪkə/

naker (plural nakers)

1. (music) A small drum, of Arabic origin, and the forebear of the European kettledrum.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     the Norman trumpets from the battlements […] , mingled with the deep and hollow clang of the nakers, (a species of kettle-drum,) retorted in notes of defiance the challenge of the enemy.

• Karen, Kārēn, knare, ranke, karen, nerka, Krane, anker