banjo

See also Banjo, and banjô

English

Wikipedia

A bluegrass banjo

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: băn'jō, IPA: /ˈbæn.dʒəʊ/, X-SAMPA: /"b{n.dZ@U/
• (US) IPA: /ˈbæn.dʒoʊ/, X-SAMPA: /"b{n.dZoU/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

banjo (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. (music) A stringed musical instrument with a round body and fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.

   I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee ...

2. (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.

Derived terms

• banjoist
• banjo enclosure
• banjo eyes, banjo-eyes, banjo-eyed

Translations

a musical instrument

• Afrikaans: banjo (af)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: banjo (eu)
• Breton: banjo (br) m
• Bulgarian: банджо (bg) (bandžo) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 班卓琴 (cmn) (bānzhuōqín)

• Croatian: bendžo
• Czech: banjo (cs) n, bendžo (cs) n
• Danish: banjo (da)
• Dutch: banjo (nl) m
• Esperanto: banĝo (eo)
• Estonian: bändžo (et)
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: banjo (fi)
• French: banjo (fr) m
• German: Banjo (de) n
• Greenlandic: banjo (kl)
• Hungarian: bendzsó (hu)
• Interlingue: banjó (ie)

• Irish: bainseo (ga) m, bainseó (ga) m
• Italian: bangio (it) m, banjo (it) m
• Japanese: バンジョー (ja) (banjō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: banjo

• Polish: banjo (pl) n
• Portuguese: banjo (pt) m
• Russian: банджо (ru) (bándžo) n
• Slovak: bendžo (sk) n
• Slovene: bendžo (sl) m
• Spanish: banjo (es) m
• Swahili: banjo (sw), zeze la kizungu (sw)
• Swedish: banjo (sv) c
• Thai: แบนโจ (th)
• Turkish: banjo (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: bänyun (vo)
• Welsh: banjô (cy)

Verb

banjo (third-person singular simple present banjos, present participle banjoing, simple past and past participle banjoed)

1. To play the banjo
2. (slang, UK) To beat; to knock down
   • 1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95

     Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.

   • 1998, "Fergie's world just gets Madar."(Sport), Sunday Mailm Jan 4, 1998

     Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game

   • 2007, "Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero", Times Online, Jul 31, 2007

     "Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.

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Czech

Noun

banjo n

1. banjo

Synonyms

• benžo (much less common)

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Finnish

(index b)

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Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ban‧jo

Noun

banjo

1. banjo

Declension

Declension of banjo (type valo) singular plural nominative banjo banjot genitive banjon banjojen partitive banjoa banjoja accusative banjo banjon banjot inessive banjossa banjoissa elative banjosta banjoista illative banjoon banjoihin adessive banjolla banjoilla ablative banjolta banjoilta allative banjolle banjoille essive banjona banjoina translative banjoksi banjoiksi instructive – banjoin abessive banjotta banjoitta comitative – banjoineen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɑ̃ʒo/, /bɑ̃dʒo/, X-SAMPA: /bA~Zo/, /bA~dZo/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

banjo m (plural banjos)

1. banjo

References

• “banjo” in the Portail lexical, Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales, 2013.

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Gothic

Romanization

banjō

1. See 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌾𐍉

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Greenlandic

Noun

banjo

1. banjo

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Italian

Noun

banjo m (invariable)

1. (music) banjo

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Spanish

Noun

banjo m (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. banjo

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Swedish

Noun

banjo c

1. (music) banjo

Declension

Declension of banjo

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	banjo	banjon	banjor	banjorna
genitive	banjos	banjons	banjors	banjornas

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West Frisian

Noun

banjo (pl: banjo's)

1. (music) banjo