bouzouki

English

Alternative forms

• bazouki, bousouki, bouzoukia, buzuki

Etymology

From Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki, “bouzouki”), from Turkish bozuk (“out of order, rotten”). Doublet of buzuq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈzuːki/, /buːˈzuːki/

Noun

bouzouki (plural bouzoukis)

1. (music) A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.
   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 262:

     The bouzouki itself, identified by this time almost equally with a ‘Turkish’ past and with the criminality of the underworld that cultivated it, became a symbol of subversion in the eyes of the authorities.

Derived terms

• baby bouzouki
• bouzoukist
• Irish bouzouki

Translations

lute

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布祖基琴 (bùzǔjīqín)

• Finnish: busuki (fi)
• French: bouzouki (fr) m
• Greek: μπουζούκι (el) n (bouzoúki)
• Hungarian: buzuki
• Japanese: ブズーキ (buzuuki)
• Polish: buzuki (pl) n
• Russian: бузу́ки m (buzúki)
• Spanish: buzuki m
• Swedish: bouzouki (sv) c
• Turkish: buzuki (tr)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Further reading

• bouzouki on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki), from Turkish bozuk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.zu.ki/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

bouzouki m (plural bouzoukis)

1. (music) bouzouki

Spanish

Alternative forms

• buzuki, bouzuki

Etymology

Etymology tree

Turkish bozuk

Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki)bor.

Spanish bouzouki

Borrowed from Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki, “bouzouki”), from Turkish bozuk (“out of order, rotten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈθuki/ [buˈθu.ki] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /buˈsuki/ [buˈsu.ki] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uki
• Syllabification: bou‧zou‧ki

Noun

bouzouki m (plural bouzoukis)

1. (music) bouzouki [from 1963]

Further reading

• “bouzouki”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 5th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 31 January 2018, →ISSN