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bousouki

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bou⋅sou⋅ki

[boo-zoo-kee]
–noun, plural -kis, -ki⋅a [-kee-uh] .
bouzouki.

bou⋅zou⋅ki

[boo-zoo-kee] noun, plural -kis, -ki⋅a [-kee-uh] .
–noun
a long-necked, fretted lute of modern Greece.


Origin:
1950–55; < ModGk mpouzoúki; Turk bozuk (broken, ruined, depraved; cf. bashi-bazouk ) or büzük (constricted, puckered) adduced as sources, but sense development is obscure
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