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Ġummiena (f)

(with) definite article: il (il-Ġummiena)
plural: Ġ̇miemen; (with) definite article: ?
(the) tassel(s)

decorative fringe(s), tassel(s), &c. dangling from any of the pipes, &c.

Identical types: 16

The fringes decorating all four "legs"; NB: The arrow in the drawing shown by Starke is directed, rather confusingly, more or less at the stock for the blowpipe.


Sources

Starke, Christian: Zaqq: the Maltese bagpipe. In: Anuario da Gaita 2003 (18), p.27.

Web

mlrs.research.um.edu.mt (Ġabra: an open lexicon for Maltese [Find ġummiena]).