tamburitza

[ tam-boor-it-suh, tam-buh-rit-suh ]

noun
  1. one of a family of mandolinlike stringed instruments of southern Slavic regions.

Origin of tamburitza

1
1925–30; <Serbo-Croatian tàmburica, diminutive of tàmbura a stringed instrument <Turkish tambura<Persian ṭanbūr;see tambura

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