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[man-dl-in, man-dl-in] 
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| a musical instrument with a pear-shaped wooden body and a fretted neck. |
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man⋅do⋅lin⋅ist, noun
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| man·do·lin (mān'də-lĭn', mān'dl-ĭn) n. A small lutelike instrument with a typically pear-shaped body and a straight fretted neck, having usually four sets of paired strings tuned in unison or octaves. [French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, lute, from French mandore, from Late Latin pandūra, three-string lute, from Greek pandoura.] man'do·lin'ist n. |
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Mandolin
Man"do*lin\, Mandoline \Man"do*line\, n. [F. mandoline, It. mandolino, dim. of mandola, fr. L. pandura. See Bandore.] (Mus.) A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.
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Language Translation for : mandolin
Spanish:
mandolina,
German:
die Mandoline,
Japanese:
マンドリン
mandolin
1707, from Fr. mandoline, from It. mandolino, dim. of mandola, a larger kind of mandolin, altered from L.L. pandura "three-stringed lute," from Gk. pandoura.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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