Etymology

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Today it means: A folk lute of the Jola people of West Africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string. Full definition →

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Borrowed from Jola-Fonyi.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.