Tom plays the balalaika.
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Balalaika
//bæləˈlaɪkə//
Synonyms for "balalaika" (8 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
66 translations across 59 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Arabic
1 entries- بَالَالَايْكَا noun (Russian instrument)
Armenian
1 entries- բալալայկա noun (Russian instrument)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- balalayka noun (Russian instrument)
- балалајка noun (Russian instrument)
Belarusian
1 entries- балала́йка noun (Russian instrument)
Bulgarian
1 entries- балала́йка noun (Russian instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- balalaica noun (Russian instrument)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 三角琴 noun (Russian instrument)
- 巴拉萊卡 /巴拉莱卡 noun (Russian instrument)
- 巴拉萊卡琴 /巴拉莱卡琴 noun (Russian instrument)
Czech
1 entries- balalajka noun (Russian instrument)
Danish
1 entries- balalajka noun (Russian instrument)
Dutch
1 entries- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Esperanto
1 entries- balalajko noun (Russian instrument)
Estonian
1 entries- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- balalaikka noun (Russian instrument)
French
1 entries- balalaïka noun (Russian instrument)
Galician
1 entries- balalaica noun (Russian instrument)
Georgian
1 entries- ბალალაიკა noun (Russian instrument)
German
1 entries- Balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Greek
1 entries- μπαλαλάικα noun (Russian instrument)
Hebrew
1 entries- בָּלָלַיְקָה noun (Russian instrument)
Hindi
1 entries- बालालय्का noun (Russian instrument)
Hungarian
1 entries- balalajka noun (Russian instrument)
Indonesian
1 entries- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Ingrian
1 entries- balalaikka noun (Russian instrument)
Interlingua
1 entries- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Irish
1 entries- balaláice noun (Russian instrument)
Italian
1 entries- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Japanese
1 entries- バラライカ noun (Russian instrument)
Kalmyk
1 entries- балалайк noun (Russian instrument)
Kazakh
1 entries- балалайка noun (Russian instrument)
Korean
1 entries- 발랄라이카 noun (Russian instrument)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- балалайка noun (Russian instrument)
Latvian
1 entries- balalajka noun (Russian instrument)
Lithuanian
1 entries- balalajka noun (Russian instrument)
Macedonian
1 entries- балалајка noun (Russian instrument)
Malay
1 entries- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Mongolian
1 entries- балалайка noun (Russian instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Persian
1 entries- بالالایکا noun (Russian instrument)
Polish
2 entries- bałabajka noun (Russian instrument)
- bałałajka noun (Russian instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- balalaica noun (Russian instrument)
Romanian
1 entries- balalaică noun (Russian instrument)
Russian
1 entries- балала́йка noun (Russian instrument)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- balalajka noun (Russian instrument)
- балалајка noun (Russian instrument)
Slovak
1 entries- balalajka noun (Russian instrument)
Slovene
1 entries- balalajka noun (Russian instrument)
Spanish
1 entries- balalaica noun (Russian instrument)
Swahili
1 entries- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Swedish
1 entries- balalajka noun (Russian instrument)
Tajik
1 entries- балалайка noun (Russian instrument)
Tatar
1 entries- балалайка noun (Russian instrument)
Turkish
1 entries- balalayka noun (Russian instrument)
Turkmen
1 entries- balalaýka noun (Russian instrument)
Ukrainian
1 entries- балала́йка noun (Russian instrument)
Uzbek
1 entries- balalayka noun (Russian instrument)
Vietnamese
2 entries- balalaica noun (Russian instrument)
- balalaika noun (Russian instrument)
Yakut
2 entries- балалаайка noun (Russian instrument)
- балалайка noun (Russian instrument)
Yiddish
1 entries- באַלאַלײַקע noun (Russian instrument)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Tom plays Balalaika? Really?
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Tom can play the balalaika.
Source: tatoeba (10176329)
Tom knows how to play the balalaika.
Source: tatoeba (10176330)
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