different between gusla vs gusle

English

Etymology

See gusle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sl?/

Noun

gusla (plural guslas)

1. Alternative spelling of gusle
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, p. 662-3:

     Soldiers were sitting at tables among these flowers, some playing cards, some singing songs to the sound of the gusla, but very softly because it was now evening, and it had been a holiday, and everyone was tired.

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 22:

     These were long ballads, often sung to the melancholy accompaniment of the one-stringed gusla, in which singers and listeners relived the great archetypal moments of Serbian history.

Anagrams

• Gauls, Gulas, aslug, gulas, ugals

English

Alternative forms

• gusla

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian g?sle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sl?/

Noun

gusle (plural gusles)

1. (music) A single-stringed lute-like stringed instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.
   • 1988, Christina Pribi?evi?-Zori?, translating Milorad Pavi?, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 30:

     Songs of Brankovich's speed are sung to the strains of the gusle.

Hypernyms

• chordophone
• lyre
• monochord
• stringed instrument

Derived terms

• guslar (someone who plays a gusle)

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

References

• 1997. A History of European Folk Music. Jan Ling. Pg. 139.

Further reading

• Gusle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Guels, glues, gules, luges

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *g?sli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ûsle/
• Hyphenation: gus?le

Noun

g?sle f pl (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. gusle

Declension