Gajde (f) (plurale tantum)
(with) definite article: GajdjaBagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)
From Arabic غيدا (ghaidā [gentle]) ?; Districts Berat and Përmet ("Tosk country", southern Albania); NB¹: ➺ Kosovo; NB²: = Gaida (Greece), Gajda [a] (Macedonia) and [b] (Serbia), and Gajda [Gajde?] (Montenegro); NB³: ➺ homonyms, &c. (incl. Gaida and Gaita).
Gajde
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Sokoli, Ramadan & Miso, Pirro: Veglat muzikore të popullit shqiptar ([Musical instruments of the Albanian people]). Tiranë, 1991, p.121, 122 (gajdja), 123*, 298.
Airs du temps: cornemuses du monde, musiques des régions. Ploezal, 1996, p.27.
Buchholz, Oda / Fiedler, Wilfried / Uhlisch, Gerda: Wörterbuch Albanisch-Deutsch. Leipzig, 1981 (2nd printing), p.657-662.
Kacori, Thoma: A handbook of Albanian. Sofia, 1979, p.196-207.
Stefanllari, Ilo: Fjalor Anglisht - Shqip. Prishtinë, 1988