Naker

Naker [Fr. *nacaire] (Fr.: nacaire; It.: nacchera; Sp.: nacara), MEngl. name of the Near Eastern kettledrum *naqqāra. The word is recorded in Engl. literature from 1352 to 1440, when it disappears until revived by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe, 1819. See: nacorne, naqqāra (180). Schad, G. Musik und Musikausdrücke in der Mittelenglischen Literatur. Giessen, 1911.