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Gajda [Gajde?] (gender unknown)

original: гајда [гајде?]

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Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)

Identical types: 61

From Arabic غيدا (ghaidā [gentle]) ?; NB¹: = Gaida (Greece), Gajda [a] (Macedonia) and [b] (Serbia), and Gajde [a] (Albania) and [b] (Kosovo); NB²: ➺ homonyms, &c. (incl. Gaida and Gaita).

Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.345-346.