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English
Noun
sodina (plural sodinas)
- A type of woodwind instrument from Madagascar played in Malagasy music.
Anagrams
Malagasy
Etymology
Borrowed from either Malay suling or Sundanese suling.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
sòdina
- flute
References
- ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 724 of 717-746