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Webster 1913 Edition
Zampogna
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Zam-po′gna
,Noun.
[It.]
(Mus.)
A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.
[Written also
zampugna
.] Definition 2024
zampogna
zampogna
English
Noun
zampogna (plural zampognas)
- A kind of Italian double-chantered bagpipe.
- 1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument (page 188)
- The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.
- 1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument (page 188)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin symphōnia (possibly influenced, through folk etymology, by zampa (“paw, leg of an animal”) in Italian, as bagpipes are traditionally made of leather with the hair still on), from Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía).
Noun
zampogna f (plural zampogne)
Verb
zampogna
- third-person singular present indicative of zampognare
- second-person singular imperative of zampognare