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bandoura

bandoura is the alternative spelling of bandura.

Meaning of bandura

Noun

bandura (plural banduras)

  1. A Ukrainian plucked stringed instrument with a tear-shaped body, like an asymmetrical lute or a vertical zither, which is played with both hands while held upright on the lap.
    • He touches the strings and pours forth a song descriptive of his live, his wanderings, his anguish, and is discovered by the magic tones of the bandura, his adventures, above all, by his voice and passionate fire.1871, [Nikolai Nikolaevich] Muraviev, “Return”, in Philipp Strahl, W[illiam] S[tephen] A[lexander] Lockhart, transl., Muraviev’s Journey to Khiva through the Turcoman Country, 1819–20. Translated...
    Synonyms:
    bandore, kobza, pandore

Forms of bandoura

pluralbandouras

Questions about bandoura

What is bandoura the alternative spelling of?
Bandoura is the alternative spelling of bandura.

Words near bandoura in the dictionary

  1. bandore
  2. bandores
  3. bandorist
  4. bandorists
  5. bandos
  6. bandoura
  7. bandouras
  8. bandourist
  9. bandourists
  10. bandpass
  11. bandpassed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bandoura (page history and authors); bandura (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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