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English
Noun
balalayka (plural balalaykas)
- Alternative form of balalaika.
1918, Harold Tennyson R.N.: The Story of a Young Sailor Put Together by a Friend, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 196: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.
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:There were balalaykas, banduras, guitars and three different makes of accordions.
2001, Boris Thomson, The Art of Compromise: The Life and Work of Leonid Leonov, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 49:When the Badgers cut the telegraph wires they cannot think of anything better to do than string them into their balalaykas.
2020, Ferdinand Huszti Horvath, Captured!, Burtyrki Books, →ISBN:Then they sang, to the accompaniment of their balalaykas.
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Russian балала́йка (balalájka).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: ba‧la‧lay‧ka
Noun
balalayka (definite accusative balalaykanı, plural balalaykalar)
- balalaika
Declension
Further reading
Turkish
Pronunciation
Noun
balalayka (definite accusative balalaykayı, plural balalaykalar)
- balalaika
Declension
Further reading
- “balalayka”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu