didgeridoo

Etymology
Likely in reference to the sound made by the instrument, or the words spoken into the instrument to play it.

The earliest known description of the instrument was in 1829 by, in which it was described as making the sound. In 2002, Lonergan proposed that the term could derive from or, though this seems to be coincidental, since there is no corroborating evidence and the terms would refer to the player (rather than the instrument itself).

Noun

 * 1) A musical instrument, endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed-out log which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerising drone with sweeping rhythms.

Translations

 * Arabic: دِيدْجِيرِيدُو
 * Burarra:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蒂傑利多, 迪吉里杜管
 * Djambarrpuyngu:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: diĝeriduo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: didiridiú
 * Italian: didgeridoo,, didjeridoo, didjeridu
 * Macedonian: ди́џериду
 * Murrinh-Patha:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: didgeridoo, didjeridu, diyiridú
 * Swedish:, didjeridu
 * Tiwi:
 * Ukrainian: діджеріду

Verb

 * 1)  To play the digeridoo.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  Australian Aboriginal musical instrument