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strum

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See also: Strum and strům

English

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Etymology

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Variant of thrum.

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strum (third-person singular simple present strums, present participle strumming, simple past and past participle strummed)

The sound of a ukelele being strummed
  1. (ambitransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.

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Noun

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strum (plural strums)

  1. The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
    hear the strum of a guitar
  2. The act of strumming.
    give the banjo a little strum

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Not attested until the 20th century. A byform of strugë (swamp; furrow).

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strum m (plural struma, definite strumi, definite plural strumat)

  1. deep pool in a river
    Synonym: pellg
  2. furrow, trench for drainage in a swampy place
  3. swamp, wetland, swampland
    Synonyms: ligatinë, moçal

References

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  • “strum,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 1797b
  • Svane, Gunnar (1992) Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Acta Iutlandica. Humanistische Reihe; 67) (in German), Åarhus: Aarhus University Press, →ISBN, page 171f.
  • Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “strum”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 404