Zourna, a kind of hautboy... The zourna has usually a mouthpiece consisting of a brass tube. Hindustan.
C. Engel, Descriptive Catalogue of Musical Instruments in South Kensington Museum 17
1870
Zourna Vezirli [from Turkey].
C. Engel, Descriptive Catalogue of Musical Instruments in South Kensington Museum 28
1876
Zurna, a Turkish wind instrument similar in character to the oboe.
J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett, Dictionary of Musical Terms 456/1
1941
Nine musicians playing the zurna (a kind of oboe), including their chief..the bandmaster.
N. Bessaraboff, Ancient European Musical Instruments 20
1953
We may assume that the Persian word zurnâ is the root from which zurna, zurne, zurla and surla were derived.
Y. Arbatsky, Beating Tupan in Central Balkans 4
1965
Speaking of the mouth~blown cylindrical pipes which she inclines to regard as ancestors of the modern clarinet, would she be referring to the zurna, sometimes known as duduk?
Listener 24 June 940/3
1976
If you are genuinely interested in the derivation, history and characteristics of musical instruments,..you will find everything from the accordion to the zurna in ‘Musical Instruments of the World’.
Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 11 November 20/2
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.
Vowels
iːfleece
ihappy
ɪkit
ɛdress
atrap, bath
ɑːstart, palm, bath
ɒlot
ɔːthought, force
ʌstrut
ʊfoot
uːgoose
əletter
əːnurse
ɪənear
ɛːsquare
ʊəcure
eɪface
ʌɪpride
aʊmouth
əʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ãgratin
ɒ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
zurna typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zurna is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of zurna, n., 1870–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
Decade
Frequency per million words
1870
0.0005
1880
0.0004
1890
0.0006
1900
0.0009
1910
0.0009
1920
0.0014
1930
0.0018
1940
0.0039
1950
0.005
1960
0.0055
1970
0.0068
1980
0.0083
1990
0.0091
2000
0.01
2010
0.0092
zurna, n. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.