"balalajka" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "balalajkas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "balalajka (plural balalajkas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "balalaika"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1917, Harry de Windt, Russia as I Know It, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 57",
          "text": "Every Cossack is a born dancer, and the merry tinkle of a “balalajka” band eventually proved too much for the colonel (a grey-haired veteran of over six feet), who suddenly rose from his seat, hurriedly left the messroom, and the next moment was wildly “pirouetting” amongst his men with, notwithstanding a flowing robe and spurs, the grace and agility of a ballet-girl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Friendship: Travel, Trade, Cultural Exchange, volume 1, number 4, page 28",
          "text": "The Bayans and Balalajkas of the BERYOZKA FOLK DANCERS",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Vsevolod Setchkarev, Studies in the Life and Work of Innokentij Annenskij, Mouton & Co., page 238",
          "text": "Praising the “play of thought” in Dostoevskij’s work since Crime and Punishment he exclaims: “Well, what sort of playing was there in Poor Folk? One string, and even that on a balalajka.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, The Polish Review, volume 20, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, page 84",
          "text": "My deceased aunts and uncles, / Playing “Balalajkas”, / Sipping glasses of wine?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Elizabeth A. Warner, The Russian Folk Theatre (Slavistic Printings and Reprintings), Mouton, page 17",
          "text": "In the Novgorod uezd (Gruzinskaja volost’), for example, whole groups of ‘gypsy’ girls dressed in brightly coloured frocks and shawls would appear in the village streets going from house to house, dancing and singing gypsy songs to a balalajka and accordion accompaniment.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Report from the […] International Meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Folk Musical Instruments, Musikmuseet, page 94",
          "text": "[…] kruglolitsa” with an accompaniment by balalajkas, domras and a bajan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Mark R[oderick] V[endrell] Southern, Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases, Praeger, page 118",
          "text": "Russ. trynka-brynka ‘worthless little coin’ or ‘plink-plunk’ (of a balalajka), associatively helped by purely onomatopoeic tryndi-bryndi ‘plink-plunk’ (verbal rendition of balalajka’s sound ~ trynka ‘small silver coin,’ or a card-game; blended with tren’kat’ / bren’kat’ ‘play badly’ as a further associative echo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Lene Kaaberbøl, Agnete Friis, translated by Elisabeth Dyssegaard, Death of a Nightingale, Soho Press",
          "text": "Other times she was just Oxana, like now, when he lifted little Kolja up from the rough planks on the veranda and danced around with him in her arms, as if there were a balalajka orchestra in her head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of balalaika."
      ],
      "id": "en-balalajka-en-noun-2vxhM-if",
      "links": [
        [
          "balalaika",
          "balalaika#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "balalajka"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cs-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajky",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajky",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajek",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajce",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkám",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajku",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajky",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajko",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajky",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajce",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkách",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkou",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "balalajka f",
      "name": "cs-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "name": "cs-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Czech",
  "lang_code": "cs",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Czech entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Czech nouns with reducible stem",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "cs",
          "name": "Musical instruments",
          "orig": "cs:Musical instruments",
          "parents": [
            "Music",
            "Tools",
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Technology",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "balalaika"
      ],
      "id": "en-balalajka-cs-noun-K-q4RefA",
      "links": [
        [
          "balalaika",
          "balalaika"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈbalalajka]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "balalajka"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hu",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "балала́йка",
        "4": "",
        "5": "balalaika"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian балала́йка (balalájka, “balalaika”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Russian балала́йка (balalájka, “balalaika”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "balalajkák",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hu-infl-nom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stem in long/high vowel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "back harmony",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "long/high vowel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkák",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkát",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákat",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkának",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáknak",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkával",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákkal",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáért",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "causal-final",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákért",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "causal-final",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkává",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákká",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "translative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkaként",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "essive-formal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákként",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "essive-formal",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "essive-modal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "essive-modal",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkában",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákban",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "superessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákon",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "superessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkánál",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáknál",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkába",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkára",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "sublative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "sublative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkához",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákhoz",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkából",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákból",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáról",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "delative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákról",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "delative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkától",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáktól",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáé",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "predicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáké",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "predicative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáéi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "predicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákéi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "predicative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hu-pos-tok",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkám",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáim",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkád",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáid",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkája",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkái",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkánk",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáink",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkátok",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáitok",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkájuk",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáik",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hu",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "plural",
        "6": "balalajkák",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{alt}}}",
        "head": "",
        "nopalindromecat": ""
      },
      "expansion": "balalajka (plural balalajkák)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "pl": "balalajkák"
      },
      "expansion": "balalajka (plural balalajkák)",
      "name": "hu-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ba‧la‧laj‧ka"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "balalajká",
        "2": "o"
      },
      "name": "hu-infl-nom"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1pl_pl": "balalajkáink",
        "1pl_sg": "balalajkánk",
        "1sg_pl": "balalajkáim",
        "1sg_sg": "balalajkám",
        "2pl_pl": "balalajkáitok",
        "2pl_sg": "balalajkátok",
        "2sg_pl": "balalajkáid",
        "2sg_sg": "balalajkád",
        "3pl_pl": "balalajkáik",
        "3pl_sg": "balalajkájuk",
        "3sg_pl": "balalajkái",
        "3sg_sg": "balalajkája",
        "n": "",
        "perspron": ""
      },
      "name": "hu-infl-pos-table"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hungarian",
  "lang_code": "hu",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hungarian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hungarian links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "hu",
          "name": "Musical instruments",
          "orig": "hu:Musical instruments",
          "parents": [
            "Music",
            "Tools",
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Technology",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "balalaika"
      ],
      "id": "en-balalajka-hu-noun-K-q4RefA",
      "links": [
        [
          "balalaika",
          "balalaika"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "hu:balalajka"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈbɒlɒlɒjkɒ]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-kɒ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "balalajka"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sv-infl-noun-c-or",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkorna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkans",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkors",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkornas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "3": "",
        "g": "c",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "balalajka c",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "c"
      },
      "expansion": "balalajka c",
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "balalajk"
      },
      "name": "sv-infl-noun-c-or"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "balalaika (Russian instrument)"
      ],
      "id": "en-balalajka-sv-noun-z3-QjPln",
      "links": [
        [
          "balalaika",
          "balalaika"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sv:balalajka"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "balalajka"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cs-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajka",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajky",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajky",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajek",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajce",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkám",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajku",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajky",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajko",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajky",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajce",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkách",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkou",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
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      "expansion": "balalajka f",
      "name": "cs-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "cs",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Czech entries with incorrect language header",
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        "Czech hard feminine nouns",
        "Czech lemmas",
        "Czech nouns",
        "Czech nouns with reducible stem",
        "Czech terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "cs:Musical instruments"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "balalaika"
      ],
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        [
          "balalaika",
          "balalaika"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈbalalajka]"
    }
  ],
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}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "balalajkas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "balalaika"
        }
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1917, Harry de Windt, Russia as I Know It, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 57",
          "text": "Every Cossack is a born dancer, and the merry tinkle of a “balalajka” band eventually proved too much for the colonel (a grey-haired veteran of over six feet), who suddenly rose from his seat, hurriedly left the messroom, and the next moment was wildly “pirouetting” amongst his men with, notwithstanding a flowing robe and spurs, the grace and agility of a ballet-girl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Friendship: Travel, Trade, Cultural Exchange, volume 1, number 4, page 28",
          "text": "The Bayans and Balalajkas of the BERYOZKA FOLK DANCERS",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Vsevolod Setchkarev, Studies in the Life and Work of Innokentij Annenskij, Mouton & Co., page 238",
          "text": "Praising the “play of thought” in Dostoevskij’s work since Crime and Punishment he exclaims: “Well, what sort of playing was there in Poor Folk? One string, and even that on a balalajka.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, The Polish Review, volume 20, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, page 84",
          "text": "My deceased aunts and uncles, / Playing “Balalajkas”, / Sipping glasses of wine?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Elizabeth A. Warner, The Russian Folk Theatre (Slavistic Printings and Reprintings), Mouton, page 17",
          "text": "In the Novgorod uezd (Gruzinskaja volost’), for example, whole groups of ‘gypsy’ girls dressed in brightly coloured frocks and shawls would appear in the village streets going from house to house, dancing and singing gypsy songs to a balalajka and accordion accompaniment.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Report from the […] International Meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Folk Musical Instruments, Musikmuseet, page 94",
          "text": "[…] kruglolitsa” with an accompaniment by balalajkas, domras and a bajan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Mark R[oderick] V[endrell] Southern, Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases, Praeger, page 118",
          "text": "Russ. trynka-brynka ‘worthless little coin’ or ‘plink-plunk’ (of a balalajka), associatively helped by purely onomatopoeic tryndi-bryndi ‘plink-plunk’ (verbal rendition of balalajka’s sound ~ trynka ‘small silver coin,’ or a card-game; blended with tren’kat’ / bren’kat’ ‘play badly’ as a further associative echo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Lene Kaaberbøl, Agnete Friis, translated by Elisabeth Dyssegaard, Death of a Nightingale, Soho Press",
          "text": "Other times she was just Oxana, like now, when he lifted little Kolja up from the rough planks on the veranda and danced around with him in her arms, as if there were a balalajka orchestra in her head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of balalaika."
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          "balalaika#English"
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  ],
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}

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        "4": "",
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      "form": "stem in long/high vowel",
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      "form": "back harmony",
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      "tags": [
        "class"
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkák",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkát",
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákat",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkának",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáknak",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkával",
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        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákkal",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "balalajkáért",
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákért",
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        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "balalajkává",
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "form": "balalajkákká",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "translative"
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    {
      "form": "balalajkáig",
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        "terminative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
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    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkaként",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákként",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "balalajkában",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákban",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inessive",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkán",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákon",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "superessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkánál",
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      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáknál",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "adessive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkába",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákba",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkára",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "sublative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "sublative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkához",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákhoz",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkából",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákból",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáról",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "delative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákról",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "delative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkától",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáktól",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáé",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "predicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáké",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "predicative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáéi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "predicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkákéi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "predicative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hu-pos-tok",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkám",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáim",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkád",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáid",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkája",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkái",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkánk",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáink",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkátok",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáitok",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkájuk",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-single",
        "possessive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkáik",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessed-many",
        "possessive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "hu",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "plural",
        "6": "balalajkák",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{alt}}}",
        "head": "",
        "nopalindromecat": ""
      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "pl": "balalajkák"
      },
      "expansion": "balalajka (plural balalajkák)",
      "name": "hu-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ba‧la‧laj‧ka"
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  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "balalajká",
        "2": "o"
      },
      "name": "hu-infl-nom"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1pl_pl": "balalajkáink",
        "1pl_sg": "balalajkánk",
        "1sg_pl": "balalajkáim",
        "1sg_sg": "balalajkám",
        "2pl_pl": "balalajkáitok",
        "2pl_sg": "balalajkátok",
        "2sg_pl": "balalajkáid",
        "2sg_sg": "balalajkád",
        "3pl_pl": "balalajkáik",
        "3pl_sg": "balalajkájuk",
        "3sg_pl": "balalajkái",
        "3sg_sg": "balalajkája",
        "n": "",
        "perspron": ""
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    }
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  "lang_code": "hu",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
        "Hungarian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Hungarian lemmas",
        "Hungarian links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Hungarian nouns",
        "Hungarian terms derived from Russian",
        "Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Rhymes:Hungarian/kɒ",
        "Rhymes:Hungarian/kɒ/4 syllables",
        "hu:Musical instruments"
      ],
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          "balalaika"
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      "wikipedia": [
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈbɒlɒlɒjkɒ]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-kɒ"
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  ],
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}

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      "tags": [
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    },
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    {
      "form": "balalajkan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkorna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkans",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkors",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balalajkornas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "",
        "g": "c",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "balalajka c",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "c"
      },
      "expansion": "balalajka c",
      "name": "sv-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "balalajk"
      },
      "name": "sv-infl-noun-c-or"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swedish common-gender nouns",
        "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swedish lemmas",
        "Swedish nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "balalaika (Russian instrument)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "balalaika",
          "balalaika"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sv:balalajka"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "balalajka"
}