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Sambikua [Sambiqua] (f)

(with) definite article: ?
bag

air reservoir: flexible (usually of animal skin), ready for the insertion of stocks

Identical types: 105
Gáita

According to Wikipedia, the general name in Guarani, which is a language spoken in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay; NB: Sambiqua is the English transliteration, suggested by Google Translate (July 2025), which proves to be, as is often the case, rather unreliable, claiming that "A bagpipe is a famous wind instrument in Scotland, consisting of a sambiqua in which the player’s air expelled by the sun is stored for sound" [sic]; NB (WS): Apparently the author of the article considers the rest of the instrument to be less important; Attempts to translate English terms into Guarani resulted in the following rather questionable list: Stock: stock [sic]; Blowpipe: soplador [sic]; Chanter: opurahéiva [= singing the song; sic]; Drone: drone [sic]; Reed(s): caña(kuéra) ...


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Vikipetà (Gáita [Text in Guarani !]).
Wikipedia (Guarani language; ➺ Avañe'ẽ [Paraguay]).