bajan
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bajan (plural bajans)
- Alternative form of bayan (“type of accordion”).
- 1974, Fontes Artis Musicae, volume 21, page 67:
- Sinfonietta for orch and two bajans (Russian accordions).
- 1992, Report from the […] International Meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Folk Musical Instruments, Musikmuseet, page 94:
- […] kruglolitsa” with an accompaniment by balalajkas, domras and a bajan.
- 1994, Stereophile, volume 17, page 193:
- […] the Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, a three-quarter-of-an-hour work for a massively outsized orchestra, an ensemble of bajans (accordions), an extra brass group, a collection of percussion, chorus, and, very briefly, a narrator who represents the voice of Lenin making a stirring announcement through a megaphone, here dramatically read by Gennady Rozhdenstvensky.
- 1997, Directions in Sound, volume 45/46, page 10:
- Live from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, with Trio Voronezh playing piano, trombone and Russian folk instruments: the double-bass balalaika (a large triangular instrument), the domra (a short-necked lute), and a bajan (a button accordion, partially operated with the chin).
- 1997, Orchestral Music in Print, Musicdata, →ISBN, page 178:
- accordion or bajan solo
- 2007, Opera, volume 58, page 1467:
- He takes a chamber-music approach to the large orchestral forces, isolating various instruments from time to time, and creating a glistening score with a vast, evocative range of sounds, partly through the inclusion of mandolins, guitars, theorbo, electronic keyboard and a bajan (an accordion with a very high register), which often create an alienating effect, as in the grotesque minuet in the first act.
- 2019, Maximillien de Lafayette, Accordion and World’s Best Contemporary Accordionists, →ISBN, page 182:
- And he pursued additional courses/training on the bajan, under the guidance of Maestro Gianluca Pica, and continued his advanced accordion studies with Maestro Alessandro Mugnoz at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali […]
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian бая́н (baján).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bajan m inan
- bayan (accordion-like instrument)
Declension
[edit]Declension of bajan
Further reading
[edit]- bajan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From bȁjati.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bȃjan (Cyrillic spelling ба̑јан, definite bȃjnī)
- beautiful, delightful, wonderful (in appearance, figuratively)
- legendary
- magical, fantastic, enchanting
Declension
[edit]indefinite forms
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
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nominative | bajan | bajna | bajno | |
genitive | bajna | bajne | bajna | |
dative | bajnu | bajnoj | bajnu | |
accusative | inanimate animate |
bajan bajna |
bajnu | bajno |
vocative | bajan | bajna | bajno | |
locative | bajnu | bajnoj | bajnu | |
instrumental | bajnim | bajnom | bajnim | |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | bajni | bajne | bajna | |
genitive | bajnih | bajnih | bajnih | |
dative | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) | |
accusative | bajne | bajne | bajna | |
vocative | bajni | bajne | bajna | |
locative | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) | |
instrumental | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) |
definite forms
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | bajni | bajna | bajno | |
genitive | bajnog(a) | bajne | bajnog(a) | |
dative | bajnom(u/e) | bajnoj | bajnom(u/e) | |
accusative | inanimate animate |
bajni bajnog(a) |
bajnu | bajno |
vocative | bajni | bajna | bajno | |
locative | bajnom(e/u) | bajnoj | bajnom(e/u) | |
instrumental | bajnim | bajnom | bajnim | |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | bajni | bajne | bajna | |
genitive | bajnih | bajnih | bajnih | |
dative | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) | |
accusative | bajne | bajne | bajna | |
vocative | bajni | bajne | bajna | |
locative | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) | |
instrumental | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) | bajnim(a) |
Further reading
[edit]- “bajan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
[edit]bajan (Cyrillic spelling бајан)
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]bajan
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