tamburica/tamburaši

English translation: tamburitza/tamburitza players

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Serbian term or phrase:tamburica/tamburaši
English translation:tamburitza/tamburitza players
Entered by: Veronica Prpic Uhing

23:50 Dec 20, 2007
Serbian to English translations [PRO]
Music / instruments
Serbian term or phrase: tamburica/tamburaši
When visiting Vojvodina, you should listen to 'tamburasi'/'tamburica'
Lj Popovic
Canada
Local time: 02:17
tamburitza
Explanation:
tamburaši - tamburashi - tamburitza musicians

tamburitza -most literally, it is the affectionate diminutive of tambura, any one of a number of long-necked fretted string instruments …

http://www.nea.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=198...

http://www.slavonicweb.org/events/tamfest_hist.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamburitza

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Veronica Prpic Uhing
United States
Local time: 01:17
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tamburica/tamburasi
tamburitza


Explanation:
tamburaši - tamburashi - tamburitza musicians

tamburitza -most literally, it is the affectionate diminutive of tambura, any one of a number of long-necked fretted string instruments …

http://www.nea.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=198...

http://www.slavonicweb.org/events/tamfest_hist.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamburitza



Veronica Prpic Uhing
United States
Local time: 01:17
Native speaker of: Croatian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  djordi
3 mins
  -> Hvala!

agree  V&M Stanković: ili: tamburaš - tamburitza player (Morton Benson Dictionary)
4 mins
  -> Hvala, imate pravo - tamburitza player

agree  Mira Stepanovic
7 hrs
  -> Hvala!

agree  Mihailolja
8 hrs
  -> Hvala!

agree  Mark Daniels: yes, I agree, this word is well-known enough in English. The spelling "tamburitza" is perhaps not the best transliteration (I don't believe we use "tz" to transliterate "c"), but who knows when and how it was adopted...
8 hrs
  -> Hvala, piše se i kao tamburitsa

agree  Sherefedin MUSTAFA
9 hrs
  -> Hvala!

agree  Dubravka Hrastovec
10 hrs
  -> Hvala!

agree  Karen Ordanic
15 hrs
  -> Hvala!

agree  Kornelija Karalic
19 hrs
  -> Hvala!

agree  Srdjan Stepanovic
1 day 15 hrs
  -> Hvala!

agree  Larisa Djuvelek-Ruggiero (X)
2 days 47 mins
  -> Hvala!
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