charango

Spanish charango, onomatopoeic, or perhaps a corruption of charanga. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹæŋɡəʊ/

charango (plural charangos)

1. A small guitar-like stringed instrument with five courses of eighteen to fifteen strings, originating in traditional Andean folk music.
   • 1978 April 14, “Music: Inti‐Illimani, From the Andes”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     One song the group performed on Thursday, “La Partida,” featured lovely bell harmonics from the guitars, a shifting pattern of cross‐rhythms on the guitar‐like charango, and a quena lead.

• charanguista, charangoist
• charangon

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

• 1998. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Edited by Bruno Nettl, Terry E. Miller, Ruth M. Stone, Sean Williams. Pg. 213.

• charango on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

charango m (plural charanghi)

1. (music) charango

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈɾanɡo/ [t͡ʃaˈɾãŋ.ɡo]
• Rhymes: -anɡo
• Syllabification: cha‧ran‧go

charango m (plural charangos)

1. (music) charango

• “charango”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014