bandurria

From Spanish bandurria.

bandurria (plural bandurrias)

1. A plectrum-plucked stringed instrument with a flat-backed pear-shaped body, with twelve strings in six courses in its most common modern form, originating in Spain.
   • 2009 February 21, Nate Chinen, “Pop Music’s Perpetual Old Man, Now 74, Is Back on the Road”, in New York Times‎:

     (It should be noted that the flamenco-tinged flourishes by Javier Mas, on bandurria and laúd, were more palatable than the ardently cloying solos by Dino Soldo, on saxophones.)

2. A bird, the black-faced ibis.

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

• "Bandurria" in Encyclopedia Brittanica.

From Latin pandurium, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra). Cognate to Portuguese pandeiro.

• IPA^(key): /banˈdurja/ [bãn̪ˈd̪u.rja]
• Rhymes: -urja
• Syllabification: ban‧du‧rria

bandurria f (plural bandurrias)

1. bandurria

• → English: bandurria, bandore

• “bandurria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014