balalayka

balalayka (plural balalaykas)

1. 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.

From Russian балала́йка (balalájka).

• IPA^(key): [bɑ.ɫɑ.ˈɫɑj.kɑ]

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• Hyphenation: ba‧la‧lay‧ka

balalayka (definite accusative balalaykanı, plural balalaykalar)

1. balalaika

• “balalayka” in Obastan.com.

• IPA^(key): [bɑ.ɫɑ.ˈɫɑj.kɑ]

balalayka (definite accusative balalaykayı, plural balalaykalar)

1. balalaika

• “balalayka”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu