bandurria

From Spanish bandurria.

bandurria (plural bandurrias)

1. (music) A plectrum-plucked stringed instrument with a flat-backed pear-shaped body, with twelve strings in six courses in its most common modern form, originating in Spain.
   • 2009 February 21, Nate Chinen, “Pop Music’s Perpetual Old Man, Now 74, Is Back on the Road”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     (It should be noted that the flamenco-tinged flourishes by Javier Mas, on bandurria and laúd, were more palatable than the ardently cloying solos by Dino Soldo, on saxophones.)

2. A bird, the black-faced ibis.

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

• "Bandurria" in Encyclopedia Brittanica.

From Latin pandurium, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra). Cognate to Portuguese pandeiro.

• IPA^(key): /banˈdurja/ [bãn̪ˈd̪u.rja]
• Rhymes: -urja
• Syllabification: ban‧du‧rria

bandurria f (plural bandurrias)

1. (music) bandurria

• → English: bandurria, bandore

• “bandurria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024