balalayka
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Cyrillic | балалајка | |
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Abjad |
Etymology
[edit]From Russian балала́йка (balalájka).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]balalayka (definite accusative balalaykanı, plural balalaykalar)
Declension
[edit]Declension of balalayka | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | balalayka |
balalaykalar | ||||||
definite accusative | balalaykanı |
balalaykaları | ||||||
dative | balalaykaya |
balalaykalara | ||||||
locative | balalaykada |
balalaykalarda | ||||||
ablative | balalaykadan |
balalaykalardan | ||||||
definite genitive | balalaykanın |
balalaykaların |
Further reading
[edit]- “balalayka” in Obastan.com.
Turkish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]balalayka (definite accusative balalaykayı, plural balalaykalar)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “balalayka”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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