Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tsampouna

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tsam-pouna
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bagpipe of the Greek islands; a folk instrument without a drone but with two chanters.

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek τσαμπούνα (tsampoúna). Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, symphony, and zampogna.

Origin

Source language: Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: τσαμπούνα

Inflected Forms

tsampounas (plural)

Questions

What does tsampouna mean?: A bagpipe of the Greek islands; a folk instrument without a drone but with two chanters.
Where does tsampouna come from?: It is traced to Greek.

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