The guitar that we call it today has been applied to some string instruments in earlier periods, leading to confusion in the name of this instrument, actually from the guitar in English. or Gitarre in German, Guitare in French are all transcribed borrowed from the Guitarra in Spanish derived from the Andalusian Arabic language, it is written in the Latin word Cithara (The transliteration is Ki-ra) . There are at least two types of instruments called guitars in Spain in the 1200s: the Latin Guitar (with a large hole, small keyboard) and the Moresca Guitar (Moors guitar), the body Moresca guitar. oval, keyboard (Fingerboard) wide and many small holes (Sound holes). The following two types of guitars were no longer developed in the 14th century and they were simply known as guitars.
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