different between banjo vs manjo

English

Etymology

A corruption of bandore, from the pronunciation of African slaves.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: b?n'j?, IPA^(key): /?bæn.d???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bæn.d?o?/

Noun

banjo (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.

   I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjo.
2. Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
3. (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
4. (Britain, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
   • 1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community, page 75:

     They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".

   • 2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London:

     Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: bainseo
• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Macedonian: ????? (bendžo)
• ? Russian: ?????? (bandžo)
• ? Thai: ????? (b??n-joo)
• ? Welsh: banjô
• ? Yiddish: ?????????? (bandzho)

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Verb

banjo (third-person singular simple present banjos, present participle banjoing, simple past and past participle banjoed)

1. To play a banjo.
2. (transitive, slang, Britain) To beat, to knock down.
   • 1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95

     Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.

   • 1998, "Fergie's world just gets Madar" (Sport), Sunday Mail, Jan 4, 1998

     Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game

   • 2007, "Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero", Times Online, Jul 31, 2007

     "Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.

3. (transitive, slang, Britain, military) To shell or attack (a target).
   • 2008, Michael Asher, The Regiment: The Definitive Story of the SAS (page cxxx)

     Riding reported that on the day Mayne had asked for DZ coordinates, their base had been banjoed by the Germans.

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Alice Parkinson, Music (2006), p. 22.

Czech

Noun

banjo n

1. banjo

Declension

Synonyms

• benžo (much less common)

Further reading

• banjo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English banjo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?n.jo?/
• Hyphenation: ban?jo

Noun

banjo m (plural banjo's, diminutive banjootje n)

1. banjo (stringed instrument)

Finnish

(index b)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?njo/, [?b?njo?]
• Rhymes: -?njo
• Syllabification: ban?jo

Noun

banjo

1. banjo

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.?o/, /b??.d?o/

Noun

banjo m (plural banjos)

1. banjo

References

• “banjo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gothic

Romanization

banj?

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Greenlandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish banjo, from English banjo.

Noun

banjo

1. banjo

Italian

Noun

banjo m (invariable)

1. (music) banjo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English banjo, 18th century black American rendition of bandore.

Noun

banjo m (definite singular banjoen, indefinite plural banjoer, definite plural banjoene)

1. (music) a banjo

References

• “banjo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English banjo, as above.

Noun

banjo m (definite singular banjoen, indefinite plural banjoar, definite plural banjoane)

1. (music) a banjo

References

• “banjo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

banjo m (plural banjos)

1. (music) banjo (a musical instrument)

Romanian

Etymology

From French banjo.

Noun

banjo n (plural banjouri)

1. banjo

Declension

Spanish

Noun

banjo m (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. banjo

Swedish

Noun

banjo c

1. (music) banjo

Declension

Anagrams

• bojan

Welsh

Alternative forms

• banjô

Etymology

Borrowed from English banjo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?band???/

Noun

banjo m (plural banjos or banjoau)

1. banjo

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “banjo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from English banjo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?banjo?/

Noun

banjo c (plural banjo's, diminutive banjoke)

1. banjo

Further reading

• “banjo”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

Blend of mandolin +? banjo

Noun

manjo (plural manjos)

1. (music, Ireland, informal) A mandolin-banjo

Synonyms

• banjolin, banjo-mandolin, mandolin-banjo

Anagrams

• jamon

Hausa

Alternative forms

• manjà

Etymology

From English major.

Noun

manjò m (plural manj?j?, possessed form manjòn)

1. major (military rank)

Usage notes

When used as a title, the whole word is given low tone.

Related terms

• mànjò-janàr?

Portuguese

Verb

manjo

1. first-person singular present indicative of manjar