гайда

Wanderword probably from Ladino, perhaps originally meaning “goat's bellows”, cognate with modern Spanish gaita, Basque gaita, Portuguese gaita. Loaned also into Macedonian гајда (gajda), Serbo-Croatian га̑јде pl, Greek γκάιντα (gkáinta), Turkish gayda, Arabic غَيْطَة (ḡayṭa).

False cognate with native onomatopoeiae Bulgarian га (ga) / га-га (ga-ga) (cawing, groaning sound), га́кам pf (gákam), га́ювам impf (gájuvam, “to squawk, to caw”) and further with Lithuanian gáida (“melody”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡajdɐ]

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га́йда • (gájda) f (relational adjective га́йден, diminutive гайди́ца)

1. bagpipe

• гайда́р (gajdár, “bagpipe player”)
• гайдуни́ца (gajduníca), гайдени́ца (gajdeníca, “bagpipe's chanter”)

• → Ottoman Turkish: غایده (gayda)
  • Turkish: gayda
  • → Greek: γκάιντα (gkáinta)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: гајде, gajde

• “гайда”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “гайда”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish هایده (hayde), هایدی (haydi).

гайда • (hajda)

1. come on, c'mon
2. let's ...

See Bulgarian га́йда (gájda).

га́йда • (hájda) f inan (genitive га́йди, nominative plural га́йди, genitive plural гайд)

1. a Bulgarian/Serbian/Polish bagpipe

From English hide.

га́йда • (hájda) f inan (genitive га́йди, nominative plural га́йди, genitive plural гайд)

1. (historical) hide (a unit of land and tax assessment of varying size in Middle Ages England)

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “гайда”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 452
• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “гайда”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “гайда”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 3 (відстава́ння – ґура́льня), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN