bajan

bajan (plural bajans)

1. Alternative form of bayan (“type of accordion”).
   • 1974, Fontes Artis Musicae, volume 21, page 67:

     Sinfonietta for orch and two bajans (Russian accordions).

   • 1992, Report from the […] International Meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Folk Musical Instruments, Musikmuseet, page 94:

     […] kruglolitsa” with an accompaniment by balalajkas, domras and a bajan.

   • 1994, Stereophile, volume 17, page 193:

     […] the Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, a three-quarter-of-an-hour work for a massively outsized orchestra, an ensemble of bajans (accordions), an extra brass group, a collection of percussion, chorus, and, very briefly, a narrator who represents the voice of Lenin making a stirring announcement through a megaphone, here dramatically read by Gennady Rozhdenstvensky.

   • 1997, Directions in Sound, volume 45/46, page 10:

     Live from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, with Trio Voronezh playing piano, trombone and Russian folk instruments: the double-bass balalaika (a large triangular instrument), the domra (a short-necked lute), and a bajan (a button accordion, partially operated with the chin).

   • 1997, Orchestral Music in Print, Musicdata, →ISBN, page 178:

     accordion or bajan solo

   • 2007, Opera, volume 58, page 1467:

     He takes a chamber-music approach to the large orchestral forces, isolating various instruments from time to time, and creating a glistening score with a vast, evocative range of sounds, partly through the inclusion of mandolins, guitars, theorbo, electronic keyboard and a bajan (an accordion with a very high register), which often create an alienating effect, as in the grotesque minuet in the first act.

   • 2019, Maximillien de Lafayette, Accordion and World’s Best Contemporary Accordionists, →ISBN, page 182:

     And he pursued additional courses/training on the bajan, under the guidance of Maestro Gianluca Pica, and continued his advanced accordion studies with Maestro Alessandro Mugnoz at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali […]

Borrowed from Russian бая́н (baján).

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.jan/
• Rhymes: -ajan
• Syllabification: ba‧jan

bajan m inan

1. bayan (accordion-like instrument)

• bajan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From bȁjati.

• IPA^(key): /bâːjan/
• Hyphenation: ba‧jan

bȃjan (definite bȃjnī, Cyrillic spelling ба̑јан)

1. beautiful, delightful, wonderful (in appearance, figuratively)
2. legendary
3. magical, fantastic, enchanting

• “bajan” in Hrvatski jezični portal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bajan (Cyrillic spelling бајан)

1. masculine singular passive past participle of bajati

bajan

1. third-person plural present indicative of bajar