German

Noun

Banjo n ‎(genitive Banjos, plural Banjos)

1. banjo

Declension

Derived terms

English

A bluegrass banjo

Noun

banjo ‎(plural banjos or banjoes)

1. (music) A stringed musical instrument (chordophone) with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings; by extension, any musicologically similar instrument, like the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.

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

2. (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
3. (Britain, 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 […]

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Translations

Verb

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

1. To play the banjo
2. (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 Mailm Jan 4, 1998

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

   • 2007, "Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero", Times Online, Jul 31, 2007

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

References

1. ↑ J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.

• 2006. Music. Alice Parkinson. Pg. 22.

Czech

Noun

banjo n

1. banjo

Declension

Synonyms

• benžo (much less common)

Finnish

(index b)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ban‧jo

Noun

banjo

1. banjo

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃ʒo/, /bɑ̃dʒo/

Noun

banjo m ‎(plural banjos)

1. banjo

References

• “banjo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gothic

Romanization

banjō

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌾𐍉

Greenlandic

Etymology

Borrowing from Danish banjo, from English banjo.

Noun

banjo

1. banjo

Italian

Noun

banjo m ‎(invariable)

1. (music) banjo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. (music) a banjo

References

• “banjo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English banjo, as above.

Noun

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

1. (music) a banjo

References

• “banjo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

banjo m (plural banjos)

1. (music) banjo (a musical instrument)

Spanish

Noun

banjo m ‎(plural banjos or banjoes)

1. banjo

Swedish

Noun

banjo c

1. (music) banjo

Declension

West Frisian

Noun

banjo ? ‎(plural banjo's)

1. (music) banjo