mandolin

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English - Turkish
mandolin
(isim) mandolin

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metal mandolin
cümbüş
Turkish - Turkish
Tahtadan, lavta şekilli mızraplı çalgı
İkişer ikişer aynı değerde dört çift telli, kısa saplı bir çalgı
English - English
A stringed instrument and a member of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin. They have either a bowl back or a flat back
An RAF World War II code name for patrols to attack enemy railway transport
A kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables (usually spelled mandoline)
an adjustable slicer for vegetables
A member of the string instrument family, part of the subfamily of unbowed strings The mandolin is tuned like the violin, except it has eight strings, rather than four (the four pitches of the violin are each doubled on the mandolin) Often found in folk music ensembles, the mandolin is smaller than the guitar It has the following stages of sound production: energy source: muscle vibrating element: the strings resonating chamber: the instrument's body
Plucked-string instrument with a rounded body and fingerboard; used in some folk musics and in country-western music
A mandolin is a musical instrument that looks like a small guitar and has four pairs of strings. Small stringed instrument related to the lute. It evolved in the 17th century in Italy, but its present form was strongly influenced by the 19th-century maker Pasquale Vinaccia (1806-82) of Naples. It has a pear-shaped body with a deeply vaulted back, a short fretted fingerboard, and four pairs of steel strings. (The American folk mandolin is a shallow, flat-backed version.) It is played with a plectrum; each pair of strings is strummed rapidly back and forth to produce a characteristic tremolo
A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute
a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum
Stringed instrument similar to, but smaller than, the lute It evolved in 18th-century Italy It has four pairs of strings, which are plucked with a plectrum
{i} pear-shaped musical instrument with four or more pairs of strings
A small stringed instrument descended from the lute

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mandolins
plural of mandolin
Turkish - English
mandolin
balalaika
mandolin

    Hyphenation

    man·do·lin

    Turkish pronunciation

    mändılîn

    Pronunciation

    /ˈmandəˌlən/ /ˈmændəˌlɪn/

    Etymology

    () From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.
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