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Meaning of "gusla" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GUSLA

gusla  [ˈɡuːslə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GUSLA

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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gusla is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GUSLA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

gusla

Gusle

The gusle is a single-stringed musical instrument traditionally used in the Dinarides region of the Southeastern Europe. The instrument is always accompanied by singing; musical folklore, specifically epic poetry. The gusle player holds the instrument vertically between his knees, with the left hand fingers on the strings. The strings are never pressed to the neck, giving a harmonic and unique sound.

Definition of gusla in the English dictionary

The definition of gusla in the dictionary is a Balkan single-stringed musical instrument that is played with a bow.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GUSLA


epistler
ɪˈpɪslə
hostler
ˈɒslə
hustler
ˈhʌslə
nanotesla
ˈnænəˌteslə
ostler
ˈɒslə
rustler
ˈrʌslə
spaetzle
ˈʃpetslə
tesla
ˈtɛslə
warsler
ˈwɔːslə
whistler
ˈwɪslə
wrestler
ˈrɛslə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GUSLA

gush
gusher
gushier
gushiest
gushily
gushiness
gushing
gushingly
gushy
guslar
gusli
gusset
gusseted
gussie
gussied
gussies
gussy
gussy up
gust
gustable

WORDS THAT END LIKE GUSLA

ala
Angola
Anguilla
bola
Cela
cola
formula
gala
Guatemala
Isabella
la
mala
pela
Sevilla
sola
Sulla
Venezuela
villa
vizsla
Wisla

Synonyms and antonyms of gusla in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gusla» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GUSLA

Find out the translation of gusla to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gusla from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gusla» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

gusla
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gusla
570 millions of speakers

English

gusla
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

gusla
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

gusla
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

gusla
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gusla
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gusla
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Gusla
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gusla
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gusla
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

gusla
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

gusla
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gusla
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gusla
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

gusla
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुसल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gusla
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gusla
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gusla
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

gusla
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Gusla
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Gusla
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gusla
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gusla
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gusla
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gusla

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GUSLA»

The term «gusla» is used very little and occupies the 151.117 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GUSLA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gusla» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gusla» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gusla

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GUSLA»

Discover the use of gusla in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gusla and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Serbia since 1989: Politics and Society under Milopevic and ...
But throughout the Milosevic era, the bards of Serbian nationalism never tired of hearkening back to the past, and in this fixation on Serbia's past, the gusla, a one -stringed instrument associated with folk music traditions in Serbia, Macedonia, ...
Sabrina P. Ramet, 2005
2
Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in ...
One band in Samokov featured clarinet, violin, daire and tu ̆pan;21 a second in Gabrovo—violin, clarinet, santur (Persian/Turkish hammered dulcimer), and tu ̆pan;while a third in Pazardzhik employed violin, clarinet, gusla, tu ̆pan, and lute ...
Donna A. Buchanan, 2006
3
The Balkans in Transition: Essays on the Development of ...
Of interest here is his poem recalling Simeon and reflecting a "cult of the gusla": Pred tvoi dnes az stoia oltar na tebe v'piia, Guslane, razkrii tvoite shtedri dlani, izlei na mene svoia dar, moiata gusla naglasi, kato dostoino da uspeia az Simeona ...
Charles Jelavich, Barbara Jelavich, 1963
4
Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of ...
IOVS * b. r PiJar; le gusla [VP a Carlos I; n. SVIO * account for the data. In this formulation, fronting to [Spec, I] is not related to the satisfaction of some A- property of the fronted XP, so fronting of the experiencer in a psych clause arguably ...
Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, 2013
5
Folk Music
Four national instruments are used most frequently in Bulgarian folk music: the giisla, the kavdl, the gdida, and the bulgaria. In addition, among the percussion instruments, the drum and the tambourine are most popular. THE GCSLA The gusla ...
6
Modernism: Representations of National Culture
7 The gusla (traditional musical instrument) and gusla playing have a very strong symbolic meaning in Serbian traditional culture, for it was connected with traditional village life and also with popular reproduction of epic songs describing the ...
Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Górny, Vangelis Kechriotis, 2010
7
Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800
Koranyi, 'Czary i gusla', pp. 1–3, 16. AGAD KB 252, fo. 25. R. Bugaj, Nauki tajemne w Polsce w dobie odrodzenia (Wrocław, 1976), p. 151. Koranyi, 'Czary i gusla', p. 1. Discussion of ecclesiastical cases and visitations is beyond the scope of ...
Wanda Wyporska, 2013
8
An Olive Tree in Dalmatia: And Other Stories
he sang, and the gusla sang with him, snug in its tasselled case. He showed it to no one. Not even to Mara, but hid it in the old house that no one went to now. It was inhabited only by the scuttling spiders and the wind, and every night when the ...
Amelia Batistich, 1963
9
New Zealand short stories: second series
It was inhabited only by the scuttling spiders and the wind, and every night when the girls sat over their dinner, or played the radiogram and entertained their friends, he went down to the house and played his gusla and sang to himself.
Christian Karlson Stead, 1966
10
Copperland
Howard Montgomery si tolse il paltò e si buttò sul letto a faccia in giù, allungò la mano e prese la sua gusla assieme all'archetto, si sedette sul letto ed iniziò a suonare. La note che si propagavano in quell'angusta stanzetta di Lincoln Creep a ...
Edgar Kenneth, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GUSLA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gusla is used in the context of the following news items.
1
George Eliot, Currer Bell, Clara Gazul, and Me
Mérimée would have known that a gusla is also a Bulgarian string instrument. Writers are clever people. (As an aside, the French writer Pierre ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15»
2
I want you: Apply to serve in Joe and Connor's cabinet
In fact, back when ol' HoyaLink was your age, there was only one student association, GUSLA: The Georgetown University Society of Lincoln ... «The Georgetown Voice, Mar 15»
3
La Vera Storia di San Nicola Vescovo alias Babbo Natale
Ed ecco il Re del Mare: 'Ehi tu Sadkò, hai tanto navigato senza mai pagarmi tributi, in cambio suona mi la gusla'. Al suono di quello strumento, ... «L'Impronta L'Aquila, Dec 14»
4
Albanians and Serbs: a common epic
What these epic songs have in common is that they are monophonic, accompanied by the lahuta / gusla. Then, from the formal point of view, ... «Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, May 13»
5
Albanesi e serbi : l ' epica in comune
E del resto chiunque sia stato il primo a prendere la lahuta/gusla in mano non è stato certo né albanese né serbo come lo intendiamo noi oggi. «Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, May 13»
6
Shazalakazoo's folk-step
These traditions are still alive today thanks to instruments that are only used here, such as the gusla (a sort of a small one stringed-guitar).”. «Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, Dec 12»
7
Il folk-step dei Shazalakazoo
... oggi ancora diffuse grazie all'impiego di strumenti che si usano solo qui, come la gusla (una specie di chitarrina, con una sola corda)". «Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, Dec 12»
8
Hubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble: The Haxan Cloak Interviewed
Traditionally when the Serbians read these war poems they're accompanied by this stringed instrument called the gusla. It sounds like a ... «The Quietus, Nov 11»
9
Sami, Frisian and Udmurt – the obscure languages of Europe's …
Coffeeshock Company (Austria) singing Gusla mi se je znicila (My Violin) in Burgenland-Croatian – Croatian dialect spoken by around 20,000 ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 11»
10
A Mythic Novel of the Balkan Wars
A decade after World War I, Luka leaves Galina and walks 300 miles to the river port of Sarobor, where he hopes to master the gusla, ... «New York Times, Mar 11»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Gusla [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/gusla>. Apr 2024 ».
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