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tam⋅bu⋅rit⋅za

  [tam-boor-it-suh, tam-buh-rit-suh]
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–noun
one of a family of mandolinlike stringed instruments of southern Slavic regions.
Origin:
1925–30; < Serbo-Croatian tàmburica, dim. of tàmbura a stringed instrument < Turk tambura < Pers ṭanbūr; see tambura
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tam·bu·rit·za   (tām-bŏŏr'ĭt-sə, tām'bə-rĭt'sə)   
n.  A Balkan stringed instrument similar to a mandolin in shape and sound.

[Serbo-Croatian tamburica, diminutive of tàmbura, stringed instrument, from Ottoman Turkish ṭambūra, from Persian ṭanbūra; see tamboura.]
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tamburitza

long-necked lute played under various names from the Balkans to northwestern Asia. Closely resembling the ancient Greek pandoura and the long lutes of ancient Egypt and Babylon, it has a deep, pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and 2 to 10 double courses of metal strings fastened with front and side tuning pegs without a pegbox.

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