| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bodhran |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bodh·ran |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b  rän , bou- |
| NOUN: | A hand-held goatskin drum used in traditional Irish music and often played with a stick. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Irish Gaelic bodhrán, from Middle Irish bodrán, from Old Irish, from bodar, deaf, deafening.
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