banjo
English
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Etymology
A corruption of bandore, from the pronunciation of African slaves.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
banjo (plural banjos or banjoes)
- (music) A stringed musical instrument (chordophone) with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
- I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...
- (music, inexact) A musical instrument similar to the banjo.
- (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
- (UK, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
- 1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community (page 75)
- They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".
- 2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London
- Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.
- 2013, Martin Crookston, Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?:
- The banjo format is not an unalloyed success these days: kids playing noisily on the quite narrow common green […]
- 1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community (page 75)
Synonyms
- (instruments similar to the banjo proper): doshpuluur
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Irish: bainseo
- → Japanese: バンジョー
- → Macedonian: бенџо (bendžo)
- → Russian: банджо (bandžo)
- → Thai: แบนโจ (bɛɛn-joo)
- → Welsh: banjô
- → Yiddish: באַנדזשאָ (bandzho)
Translations
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See also
Verb
banjo (third-person singular simple present banjos, present participle banjoing, simple past and past participle banjoed)
- To play a banjo.
- (slang, British) 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”.
- 1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95
References
Citations
- ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “banjo”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Bibliography
- Alice Parkinson, Music (2006), p. 22.
Czech
Noun
banjo n
Declension
Synonyms
- benžo (much less common)
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
banjo m (plural banjo's, diminutive banjootje n)
- banjo (stringed instrument)
Finnish
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ban‧jo
Noun
banjo
Declension
Inflection of banjo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | banjo | banjot | |
genitive | banjon | banjojen | |
partitive | banjoa | banjoja | |
illative | banjoon | banjoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | banjo | banjot | |
accusative | nom. | banjo | banjot |
gen. | banjon | ||
genitive | banjon | banjojen | |
partitive | banjoa | banjoja | |
inessive | banjossa | banjoissa | |
elative | banjosta | banjoista | |
illative | banjoon | banjoihin | |
adessive | banjolla | banjoilla | |
ablative | banjolta | banjoilta | |
allative | banjolle | banjoille | |
essive | banjona | banjoina | |
translative | banjoksi | banjoiksi | |
abessive | banjotta | banjoitta | |
instructive | — | banjoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
Pronunciation
Noun
banjo m (plural banjos)
References
- “banjo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Gothic
Romanization
banjō
- Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌾𐍉
Greenlandic
Etymology
Borrowed from Danish banjo, from English banjo.
Noun
banjo
Italian
Noun
banjo m (uncountable)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English banjo, 18th century black American rendition of bandore.
Noun
banjo m (definite singular banjoen, indefinite plural banjoer, definite plural banjoene)
References
- “banjo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
banjo m (definite singular banjoen, indefinite plural banjoar, definite plural banjoane)
References
- “banjo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Noun
banjo m (plural s)
Spanish
Noun
banjo m (plural banjoes)
Swedish
Noun
banjo c
Declension
Declension of banjo | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | banjo | banjon | banjor | banjorna |
Genitive | banjos | banjons | banjors | banjornas |
Anagrams
Welsh
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
banjo m (plural banjos or banjoau)
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
banjo | fanjo | manjo | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “banjo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
West Frisian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
banjo c (plural banjo's, diminutive banjoke)
Further reading
- “banjo”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Musical instruments
- English slang
- British English
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- en:String instruments
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech neuter nouns
- cs:Musical instruments
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Musical instruments
- Gothic non-lemma forms
- Gothic romanizations
- Greenlandic terms borrowed from Danish
- Greenlandic terms derived from Danish
- Greenlandic terms derived from English
- Greenlandic lemmas
- Greenlandic nouns
- kl:Musical instruments
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian uncountable nouns
- Italian terms spelled with J
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Musical instruments
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Musical instruments
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Musical instruments
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Musical instruments
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Musical instruments
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Musical instruments
- Welsh terms borrowed from English
- Welsh terms derived from English
- Welsh terms with IPA pronunciation
- Welsh lemmas
- Welsh nouns
- Welsh countable nouns
- Welsh terms spelled with J
- Welsh masculine nouns
- cy:Musical instruments
- West Frisian terms borrowed from English
- West Frisian terms derived from English
- West Frisian terms with IPA pronunciation
- West Frisian lemmas
- West Frisian nouns
- West Frisian common-gender nouns
- fy:Musical instruments