gajda

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English

Noun

gajda (plural gajdas)

  1. (music) Alternative form of gaida
    • 1999, Simon Broughton, World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, page 203:
      Many of them are one-time pupils of Pece Atanasovski, until his recent untimely death the finest gajda player in the country, and leader of the very fine Radio Skopje (now Macedonian TV-Ratio) ensemble, the Ansambl na Narodni Instrumenti, with which he recorded frequently.

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Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

gajda f

  1. (Far Masovian) thick or fat leg
  2. (Central Greater Poland) clumsy or fat person

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Further reading

  • Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “gajdy”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 108
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “gajda”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 18
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