The majority of musical instruments used in European medieval and classical music have roots in Arabic musical instruments that were adopted from the medieval Arab world. They include the lute, which shares an ancestor with the "oud"; rebec (an ancestor of the violin) from "rebab", guitar from "qitara", naker from "naqareh", adufe from "al-duff", alboka from "al-buq", anafil from "al-nafir", exabeba (a type of flute) from "al-shabbaba", atabal (a type of bass drum) from "al-tabl", atambal from "al-tinbal", the balaban, castanet from "kasatan", and sonajas de azófar from "sunuj al-sufr".