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Cărăbi (f)

(with) definite article: Cărabile [?]
➺ remark(s) below
Cimpoi / Cimpoĭ

Plural form, occasionally used (seemingly only in colloquial speech) to denote a single instrument [Compare bagpipe(s); ws]; NB¹: ➺ Cimpoaie & Cimpoile; NB²: ➺ Karaba and similar terms.

Sources

Alexandru, Tiberiu: Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului român. Bucureşti, 2014 (Reprint of Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului romîn, Bucureşti, 1956), p.77 (cimpoaie sau [or] cărăbi); NB: NOT as such in index (Materii) !.