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Limbă (f)

(with) definite article: Limba
(the) tongue

tongue: vibrating blade of a single reed (idioglot (either up- or down-cut) or heteroglot)

Identical types: 31
Ancie

The tongue of the reed, cut "in the shape of the letter U"; NB: ➺ my observation regarding a possible link with the Sardinian term Limbatta.

Sources

Alexandru, Tiberiu: Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului român. Bucureşti, 2014 (Reprint of Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului romîn, Bucureşti, 1956), p.79; NB: NOT as such in index (Materii).

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ws: Not as such in Dexonline