Dutar (also dotar; Persian: دوتار, romanized: dutâr; Russian: Дутар; Tajik: Дутор; Uzbek: Дутор; Uyghur: دۇتار, romanized: Dutar; simplified Chinese: 都塔尔; traditional Chinese: 都塔爾; pinyin: Dū tǎ ěr; Dungan: Дутар) yɛ Iranian ''lute'' a no kɔn yɛ tsentsen na ahoma ebien wɔ ho a wohuu no wɔ Iran na Central Asia. Ne dzin fi Persia kasafua a wɔwɔ ma ''two strings''دوتار do tār (< دو do "two",تار tār "string"), kaansa nna Herati dutar a ɔwɔ Afghanistan wɔ ahoma duanan. Dutar yɛ adze a ɔagye dzin wɔ Tajikistan na Khorasan mansin a ɔwɔ Iran mu. Sɛ wɔbɔ a, Uyghurfo a wofi Western China na wɔtaa tsew ahoma no na Tajiks, Turkmen, Uzbeks na wɔbɔ na wɔtsew. Adzeyɛdze a ɔka ho nye Kazakh dombra. Dutar so yɛ adzeyɛdze a no ho hia ka Kurds a ofi Khorasan a wohun Haj Ghorban Soleimani a ofi Quchan dɛ ɔyɛ enyimnyamfo. Kurdish hɔ no, nyia ɔbɔ dutar ne dzin dze bakci (bakhshi) a ɔsɛ Turkmen bagsy, a wɔfrɛ no ashiq wɔ Azeri. Wɔagye Khorasan bakhshi ndwom ato mu wɔ ''Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity'' mu.
Duter n'ahyɛse wɔ mfeha 15 ber mu no a nna ɔyɛ obi a ɔhwɛ adzeyɛdze nkaa no do n'adzeyɛdze no, wɔdze ''gut'' na wɔdze yɛɛ n'ahoma no. Mbom, Silk Road ne mbuei no, ahoma ''catgut'' maa ahoma a ɔyɛ ''strings'' a wɔdze serekye nkyinkyimii yɛe a wɔdze fi China bae no kwan. Ndɛ mber yi adzeyɛdze binom da ho dze serekye ahoma dzi dwuma, kaasa wɔtaa dze ''nylon'' so dzi dwuma.
Dutar no wɔ ndze a no mu yɛ dɛw. Adzeyɛdze a ɔyɛ ''pear-shaped'' no su ankasa yɛ kwansin kor dze rokɔ ebien.
Wɔtaa kyim no to La Re anaa A D, naaso ogyina bea no do so.