banjo

A corruption of bandore, from the pronunciation of African slaves.[1]

• (UK) enPR: băn'jō, IPA^(key): /ˈbæn.dʒəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæn.d͡ʒoʊ/

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banjo (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.

   I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjo.
2. Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
3. (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
4. (UK, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
   • 1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community, page 75:

     They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".

   • 2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London:

     Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.

   • 2013, Martin Crookston, Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?:

     The banjo format is not an unalloyed success these days: kids playing noisily on the quite narrow common green […]

5. (mining) A miner's round-nosed shovel.

• → Irish: bainseo
• → Japanese: バンジョー
• → Macedonian: бенџо (bendžo)
• → Mongolian: банжо (banžo)
• → Russian: банджо (bandžo)
• → Thai: แบนโจ (bɛɛn-joo)
• → Welsh: banjô
• → Yiddish: באַנדזשאָ‎ (bandzho)

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

banjo (third-person singular simple present banjos, present participle banjoing, simple past and past participle banjoed)

1. To play a banjo.
2. (transitive, slang, Britain) To beat, to knock down.
   • 1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95:

     Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.

   • 1998, "Fergie's world just gets Madar" (Sport), Sunday Mail, Jan 4, 1998

     Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game

   • 2007 July 31, “Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero”, in Times Online:

     "Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.

3. (transitive, slang, Britain, military) To shell or attack (a target).
   • 2008, Michael Asher, The Regiment: The Definitive Story of the SAS, page cxxx:

     Riding reported that on the day Mayne had asked for DZ coordinates, their base had been banjoed by the Germans.

• Alice Parkinson, Music (2006), p. 22.

banjo n

1. banjo

   Synonym: (much less common) benžo

• banjo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957

Borrowed from English banjo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑn.joː/

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• Hyphenation: ban‧jo

banjo m (plural banjo's, diminutive banjootje n)

1. banjo (stringed instrument)

• → Indonesian: banyo

From English banjo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑnjo/, [ˈbɑ̝njo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑnjo
• Syllabification^(key): ban‧jo

banjo

1. banjo

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.ʒo/, /bɑ̃.dʒo/

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banjo m (plural banjos)

1. banjo

• “banjo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

banjō

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌾𐍉

Borrowed from Danish banjo, from English banjo.

banjo

1. banjo

From English banjo, a corruption of bandore, Spanish bandurria, from Latin pandura, pandurium, a musical instrument of three strings, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra, “three-stringed lute”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈband͡ʒo]
• Hyphenation: ban‧jo

banjo (first-person possessive banjoku, second-person possessive banjomu, third-person possessive banjonya)

1. (music) banjo: a stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.

• banyo

• “banjo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

banjo m (invariable)

1. (music) banjo

banjo (Jawi spelling بنجو‎, plural banjo-banjo, informal 1st possessive banjoku, 2nd possessive banjomu, 3rd possessive banjonya)

1. (music) banjo

• “banjo” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From English banjo, 18th century black American rendition of bandore.

banjo m (definite singular banjoen, indefinite plural banjoer, definite plural banjoene)

1. (music) a banjo

• “banjo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English banjo, as above.

banjo m (definite singular banjoen, indefinite plural banjoar, definite plural banjoane)

1. (music) a banjo

• “banjo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• bandżo

Unadapted borrowing from English banjo, from bandore, from Spanish bandurria, from Latin pandūra, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra). Doublet of bandura and mandola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈban.d͡ʐɔ/

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• Rhymes: -and͡ʐɔ
• Syllabification: ban‧jo

banjo n (indeclinable)

1. (music) banjo

• banjo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• banjo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

banjo m (plural banjos)

1. (music) banjo (a musical instrument)

From French banjo.

banjo n (plural banjouri)

1. banjo

banjo m (plural banjos or banjoes)

1. banjo

• “banjo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English banjo.

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banjo (n class, plural banjo)

1. banjo

banjo c

1. (music) banjo

• bojan

• banjô

Borrowed from English banjo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈband͡ʒɔ/

banjo m (plural banjos or banjoau)

1. banjo

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “banjo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Borrowed from English banjo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbanjoː/

banjo c (plural banjo's, diminutive banjoke)

1. banjo

• “banjo”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011