"bajan" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bajans [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bajan (plural bajans)
  1. Alternative form of bayan (“type of accordion”). Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: bayan (extra: type of accordion)
    Sense id: en-bajan-en-noun-omvyfa2a Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1992, Report from the […] International Meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Folk Musical Instruments, Musikmuseet, page 94",
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          "ref": "1994, Stereophile, volume 17, page 193",
          "text": "[…] the Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, a three-quarter-of-an-hour work for a massively outsized orchestra, an ensemble of bajans (accordions), an extra brass group, a collection of percussion, chorus, and, very briefly, a narrator who represents the voice of Lenin making a stirring announcement through a megaphone, here dramatically read by Gennady Rozhdenstvensky.",
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          "ref": "2007, Opera, volume 58, page 1467",
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          "ref": "2019, Maximillien de Lafayette, Accordion and World’s Best Contemporary Accordionists, page 182",
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