gusle

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian gȕsle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡʊslə/

Noun

gusle (plural gusles)

  1. (music) A single-stringed lute-like stringed instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.
    • 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 30:
      Songs of Brankovich's speed are sung to the strains of the gusle.

Hypernyms

Derived terms

  • guslar (someone who plays a gusle)

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gǫsli.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡûsle/
  • Hyphenation: gus‧le

Noun

gȕsle f (Cyrillic spelling гу̏сле)

  1. (plural only) gusle

Declension

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