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zampogna

UK/zæmˈpəʊnjə/US/zæmˈpoʊnjə/

zampogna noun: a kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.

zampogna: a kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe
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Noun

zampogna (plural zampognas)

  1. A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.
    • “When I go out to guard my sheep I play my zampogna, and I walk along and the sheep follow me. […]”1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, London: Griffin, Bohn, published 1861, page 178
    • The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument, page 188

Forms of zampogna

pluralzampognas

Origin of zampogna

Borrowed from Italian zampogna. Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, tsampouna, and symphony.

Questions about zampogna

What does zampogna mean?
Zampogna means a kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.
What part of speech is zampogna?
Zampogna is a noun.
How do you pronounce zampogna?
Zampogna is pronounced /zæmˈpəʊnjə/ (UK).
What is the plural of zampogna?
The plural of zampogna is zampognas.

Words near zampogna in the dictionary

  1. Zamoyski
  2. Zamość
  3. zampanolide
  4. Zampella
  5. Zampellas
  6. zampogna
  7. zampognas
  8. zampolit
  9. zampolits
  10. zampone
  11. zamponi

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