bouzouki

• bazouki, bousouki, bouzoukia, buzuki

From Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki, “bouzouki”), from Turkish bozuk (“out of order, rotten”).^[1] Doublet of buzuq.

• IPA^(key): /bəˈzuːki/, /buːˈzuːki/

bouzouki (plural bouzoukis)

1. (music) A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.
   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 262:

     The bouzouki itself, identified by this time almost equally with a ‘Turkish’ past and with the criminality of the underworld that cultivated it, became a symbol of subversion in the eyes of the authorities.

• baby bouzouki
• bouzoukist
• Irish bouzouki

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

•   bouzouki on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki), from Turkish bozuk.

• IPA^(key): /bu.zu.ki/

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bouzouki m (plural bouzoukis)

1. (music) bouzouki