balalayka

plural balalaykas

1. alternativeAlternative form of balalaika.

   Then they sang, to the accompaniment of their balalaykas.

   2020, Ferdinand Huszti Horvath, Captured!, Burtyrki Books, →ISBN

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   We had an enormous brass band who played magnificently, and then a band of “balalaykas,” the Russian national instrument, accompanied with tambourines and wooden spoons, etc., and really a very pretty effect.

   1918, Harold Tennyson R.N.: The Story of a Young Sailor Put Together by a Friend, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 196

   There were balalaykas, banduras, guitars and three different makes of accordions.

   1967, Jacob J. Hergert, “I Was Born Among the Russian Subversives”: A Saga of Why It Was Possible for the Bolsheviks to Effect the Transition from One Absolutism to Another; What Are We Facing?, Santa Barbara, Calif.: J. J. and A. J. Hergert, page 588

   When the Badgers cut the telegraph wires they cannot think of anything better to do than string them into their balalaykas.

   2001, Boris Thomson, The Art of Compromise: The Life and Work of Leonid Leonov, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 49