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Mihbaj

A mihbaj (Arabic: مهباج), also known as a jurn (Arabic: الجرن), or azzam (العزام, literally: "The Inviter"), is a traditional Arabic implement, made of a wooden base with a foot-long pestle, that serves both as a coffee grinder and as percu…

يتكون المهباش من قطعتين هما: بدن المهباش (الجرن) و يد المهباش (العصا).
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A mihbaj (Arabic: مهباج), also known as a jurn (Arabic: الجرن), or azzam (العزام, literally: "The Inviter"), is a traditional Arabic implement, made of a wooden base with a foot-long pestle, that serves both as a coffee grinder and as percussion instrument. It is one of the few instruments used in Bedouin music. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Mihbaj”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Mihbaj is bedouin grinding implement, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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