Tar (string instrument)

Tar - Middle Eastern and Central Asian long-necked, waisted string instrument. Article "Tar (string instrument)" in English Wikipedia has 52.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in Czech Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Tar (string instrument)", its content was written by 192 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 900 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 328 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2414 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7410 in December 2012
• Global: #11732 in March 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #92542 in October 2021
• Global: #87813 in October 2021

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Czech (cs) Tar (hudební nástroj)		53.2496
2	English (en) Tar (string instrument)		52.8186
3	Persian (fa) تار		49.3808
4	Russian (ru) Тар		47.2292
5	German (de) Tar (Saiteninstrument)		41.2154
6	Azerbaijani (az) Tar		37.1328
7	Korean (ko) 타르 (현악기)		35.388
8	Ukrainian (uk) Тар (музичний інструмент)		34.814
9	Catalan (ca) Tar (instrument de corda)		32.0636
10	Arabic (ar) تار (آلة موسيقية)		29.4862

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Tar (string instrument)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Persian (fa) تار		684 050
2	English (en) Tar (string instrument)		646 487
3	Russian (ru) Тар		240 959
4	Turkish (tr) Tar (çalgı)		219 479
5	Azerbaijani (az) Tar		197 908
6	French (fr) Târ (luth)		133 577
7	German (de) Tar (Saiteninstrument)		89 869
8	Polish (pl) Tar (instrument)		48 307
9	Portuguese (pt) Tar		47 869
10	Spanish (es) Tar (laúd)		38 645

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Tar (string instrument)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tar (string instrument)		8 854
2	Italian (it) Tar (strumento musicale)		1 989
3	Persian (fa) تار		1 463
4	Russian (ru) Тар		819
5	Azerbaijani (az) Tar		596
6	Turkish (tr) Tar (çalgı)		546
7	French (fr) Târ (luth)		448
8	German (de) Tar (Saiteninstrument)		390
9	Spanish (es) Tar (laúd)		155
10	Hebrew (he) טאר		131

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Tar (string instrument)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tar (string instrument)		192
2	Persian (fa) تار		161
3	Russian (ru) Тар		106
4	German (de) Tar (Saiteninstrument)		70
5	French (fr) Târ (luth)		68
6	Azerbaijani (az) Tar		47
7	Turkish (tr) Tar (çalgı)		43
8	Italian (it) Tar (strumento musicale)		35
9	Hebrew (he) טאר		24
10	Spanish (es) Tar (laúd)		21

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Tar (string instrument)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Tar (instrument de corda)		1
2	Czech (cs) Tar (hudební nástroj)		1
3	Russian (ru) Тар		1
4	Arabic (ar) تار (آلة موسيقية)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Tar		0
6	German (de) Tar (Saiteninstrument)		0
7	English (en) Tar (string instrument)		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Tar (liuto)		0
9	Spanish (es) Tar (laúd)		0
10	Persian (fa) تار		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Tar (string instrument)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Persian (fa) تار		636
2	Russian (ru) Тар		331
3	English (en) Tar (string instrument)		328
4	Ukrainian (uk) Тар (музичний інструмент)		205
5	German (de) Tar (Saiteninstrument)		147
6	French (fr) Târ (luth)		135
7	Azerbaijani (az) Tar		131
8	Turkish (tr) Tar (çalgı)		79
9	Armenian (hy) Թառ		73
10	Hebrew (he) טאר		49

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تار (آلة موسيقية)
az	Azerbaijani Tar
ca	Catalan Tar (instrument de corda)
cs	Czech Tar (hudební nástroj)
de	German Tar (Saiteninstrument)
en	English Tar (string instrument)
eo	Esperanto Tar (liuto)
es	Spanish Tar (laúd)
fa	Persian تار
fr	French Târ (luth)
he	Hebrew טאר
hy	Armenian Թառ
id	Indonesian Tar (alat musik)
it	Italian Tar (strumento musicale)
ja	Japanese タール (弦楽器)
ka	Georgian თარი
ko	Korean 타르 (현악기)
lt	Lithuanian Taras (instrumentas)
nl	Dutch Tär
pl	Polish Tar (instrument)
pt	Portuguese Tar
ru	Russian Тар
sr	Serbian Персијски тар
tr	Turkish Tar (çalgı)
uk	Ukrainian Тар (музичний інструмент)
uz	Uzbek Tor (cholgʻu asbobi)

Best Rank

English: #92542 10.2021

Global: #87813 10.2021

Best Rank

English: #7410 12.2012

Global: #11732 03.2024

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