gusle

English

Alternative forms

• gusla

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian gȕsle／гу̏сле. Doublet of gusli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʊslə/

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Noun

gusle (plural gusles)

1. (music) A single-stringed lute-like musical 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.

Hypernyms

• chordophone
• lyre
• monochord
• stringed instrument

Derived terms

• guslar

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

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

References

• 1997. A History of European Folk Music. Jan Ling. Pg. 139.

Anagrams

• Guels, glues, gules, luges

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫsli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡûsle/
• Hyphenation: gu‧sle

Noun

gȕsle f pl (Cyrillic spelling гу̏сле)

1. gusle

Declension

Declension of gusle

	plural
nominative	gȕsle
genitive	gȕsālā / gȕslī
dative	guslama
accusative	gusle
vocative	gusle
locative	guslama
instrumental	guslama

Derived terms

• gȕslār

Further reading

• “gusle”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• “gusle”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024