Mutrib

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MUTRIB

  "Mutrib" means artists or musicians.  It was used many times in a book of Islamic music and arts that I read (but did not buy) at the museum.
  Not in the OED.

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MISC.

   Uzbekistan has about 25 million people.  Tashkent was the fourth largest city in the USSR.  An online OED check shows:

French--10,574 hits
France--6,285
Spanish--3,001
Spain--2,519
Russian--1,885
Russia--1,636
Uzbek--20 (ten of them in "Uzbek" entry)
Uzbekistan--4

   I was robbed last night.
   Today is Victory Day, and the police were out yesterday also.  I got stopped just a block from the hotel.  I was asked for my ID.  One of the two people who stopped me liked the $20 in my wallet.
   Talk about your expensive internet days!