домра

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Etymology

From a Turkic language, from Persian تنبور (tanbur). Compare Kazakh домбыра (dombyra), Uzbek dombira, Bashkir думбыра (dumbıra).

Doublet of домбра́ (dombrá) and танбу́р (tanbúr).

Pronunciation

Noun

до́мра (dómraf inan (genitive до́мры, nominative plural до́мры, genitive plural домр)

  1. domra (round-bodied lute of East Slavic origin with either three or four strings)

Declension

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “домра”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress