any of a family of plucked stringed instruments of South Slavic regions, somewhat resembling the mandolin
Origin of tamburitza
Serb, ultimately from Arabic ?unb?r, a stringed instrument: see tambourtamburitza
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tamburitza
noun
A Balkan stringed instrument similar to a mandolin in shape and sound.
Origin of tamburitza
Serbo-Croatian tamburica diminutive of tambura stringed instrument from Ottoman Turkish &tlowdot;ambūra from Persian &tlowdot;anbūra ; see tamboura .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural tamburitzas)
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