gajda
See also: Gajda
English
Noun
gajda (plural gajdas)
- (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.
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (Greater Poland):
- (Central Greater Poland) IPA(key): /ˈɡaj.da/
- (Masovia):
- (Far Masovian) IPA(key): /ˈɡaj.da/
- (Lesser Poland):
- (Kielce) IPA(key): /ˈɡaj.da/
Noun
gajda f
- (Far Masovian) thick or fat leg
- (Central Greater Poland) clumsy or fat person
- (Kielce) synonym of zanadrze
- Wzionem trochę zboża w gajdę. ― I put some grain in under my bosom.
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Further reading
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “gajdy”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, 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
- Władysław Siarkowski (1878) “gajda”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 247