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Balalaika

2 stages from Russian to English.

Today it means a Russian stringed folk instrument with a triangular body
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Stage 1 of 2
balalaika
Russian · 1700s
"a triangular stringed instrument"
a triangular-bodied stringed folk instrument
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Stage 2 of 2
balalaika
English · 1800s
"a triangular Russian folk instrument"
adopted directly for the distinctive Russian instrument
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