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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian gȕsle/гу̏сле. Doublet of gusli.
Pronunciation
Noun
gusle (plural gusles)
- (music) A single-stringed lute-like stringed instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.
- Synonym: lahuta
1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 30:Songs of Brankovich's speed are sung to the strains of the gusle.
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Translations
single-stringed instrument
- Albanian: lahutë (sq) f
- Belarusian: гу́слі f pl (húsli)
- Bulgarian: гу́сла f (gúsla)
- Carpathian Rusyn: гу́слї f pl (húslji)
- Catalan: gusla (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 古斯莱 (gǔsīlái)
- Czech: gusle f pl, housle (cs) f pl (violin)
- Dutch: gusle
- Esperanto: guzlo
- Finnish: gusle, gusla, lahuta
- French: gusle (fr), guzla (fr)
- German: Gusle (de) f, Gusla (de) f
- Hungarian: guszle, guszla, guzlica (hu)
- Indonesian: gusle
- Italian: gusla
- Korean: 구슬라 (guseulla), 구슬레 (guseulle)
- Macedonian: гусла f (gusla)
- Marathi: गुसले f (gusle)
- Polish: gęśle (pl) nvir, gęśla (pl), gęśl (pl)
- Portuguese: gusla (pt) f, guzla
- Romanian: guzlă (ro) f
- Russian: гу́сли (ru) f pl (gúsli), гу́сле (ru) (gúsle), гу́сла (ru) (gúsla)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гу̏сле f pl
- Roman: gȕsle (sh) f pl
- Slovak: gusle f pl, housle (sk) f pl (violin)
- Slovene: gusle f pl
- Spanish: guzla
- Swedish: gusle
- Turkish: gusle, gusla
- Ukrainian: гу́слі f pl (húsli), гуслє (huslje)
- Uzbek: gusle, gusla
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Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫsli.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡûsle/
- Hyphenation: gu‧sle
Noun
gȕsle f pl (Cyrillic spelling гу̏сле)
- gusle
Declension
Declension of gusle
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plural
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nominative
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gȕsle
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genitive
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gȕsālā / gȕslī
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dative
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guslama
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accusative
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gusle
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vocative
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gusle
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locative
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guslama
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instrumental
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guslama
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “gusle” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- “gusle” in Hrvatski jezični portal