Bandurria
/bænˈdʊəriə/noun
A Spanish plucked string instrument with a short neck and rounded body, related to the mandolin.
Did you know?Bandurria is a real historical instrument name, but its deeper origin is uncertain; scholars generally connect it to Spanish and possibly earlier Mediterranean string-instrument vocabulary rather than any occult root.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greece
Greek
pandoura
“a small stringed instrument, likely a lute-like instrument”
Late Antiquity
Greek/Latin
pandura
“a three-stringed or lute-like instrument”
Medieval Spanish
Spanish
bandurria
“a plucked string instrument”
Modern English
English
bandurria
“the Spanish instrument itself or its name in borrowed form”