baglamas
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Greek μπαγλαμάς (baglamás), from Turkish bağlama.
Noun
editbaglamas (plural baglamades)
- (music) A plucked stringed instrument, a long-necked bowl lute, played in Greek music and often made of improvised materials; it is a high-pitched and small bouzouki with one string in an octave pair on the lower D and unison pairs on the four highest strings.
- 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 262:
- This was the time when the younger cousin of the bouzouki, the baglamas, came into its own – the more easily to be concealed beneath clothing or in a specially designed pocket sewn into an overcoat.
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editEtymology 2
editNoun
editbaglamas
References
edit- 2013. The Social Organization of Exile. Margaret E. Kenna. Pg. 30.
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