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Kemenche (, Persian language : کمانچه) or Lyra is a name used for various types of stringed bowed musical instruments originating in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly in Greece, Armenia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. and regions adjacent to the Black Sea. These instruments are , generally having three strings and played held upright with their tail on the knee of the musician.Hugo Pinksterboer, Tipbook: Cello (2002), p. 106. The name Kemenche derives from the Persian language Kamancheh, meaning a "small bow".
Other bowed instruments have names sharing the same Persian etymology include the kamancheh (or Kabak kemane in Turkish), a Spike lutes (Hornbostel-Sachs), and the Cappadocian kemane, an instrument closely related to the kemenche of the Black Sea with added sympathetic strings. Circassians have a similar instrument named the Shikepshine which means horse tail violin.
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