txistulari

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Basque txistulari.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃistuˈlaɾi/ [t͡ʃis.t̪uˈla.ɾi]
  • Rhymes: -aɾi
  • Syllabification: txis‧tu‧la‧ri

Noun

txistulari m or f by sense (plural txistularis)

  1. a txistu player
    • 2017 August, “Mochilas sin el peso de la exclusión. Deia, Noticias de Bizkaia”, in Deia[1], archived from the original on 2 March 2018:
      Con los ojos clavados en el escenario, los más pequeños pudieron disfrutar de las actuaciones de Txikilandia, Iñaki Basabe, el Mago Valen y el txistulari Mikel Bilbao.
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Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.