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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Марфа (Marfa).
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name
A city, the county seat of Presidio County, in far West Texas.
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noun
A percussion instrument thought to have originated in Africa
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noun
A form of Hyderabadi music inspired by Afro-Arab music that typically uses such instruments
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History
Transliteration of Russian and Ukrainian Ма́рфа (Márfa). Doublet of Martha. The town is named after a character in Jules Verne's novel Michael Strogoff.
Borrowed from Urdu مرفع (marfa’), ultimately from Yemeni Arabic مرفع (marfa’, “kettledrum”).
