Etymology

baglamas

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Greek μπαγλαμάς ← Turkish bağlama
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  1. Turkish · derived frombağlama
  2. Greek · borrowed fromμπαγλαμάς
  3. English todaybaglamas

From Greek μπαγλαμάς (baglamás), from Turkish bağlama.

Words from the same roots

Turkishbağlama all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.