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Za n. (Min.) An old solfeggio name for B flat; the seventh harmonic, as heard in the or aeolian string; so called by Tartini. It was long considered a false, but is the true note of the chord of the flat seventh.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... travel it. The word was orig. written with Sin but changed for easier articulation to Sad, one of the four Huruf al-Mutabbakat, "the flattened," formed by the broadened tongue in contact with the palate. This Sad also by the figure Ishmam (conversion) turns slightly to a Za, the intermediate ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton