strum

Variant of thrum.

• IPA^(key): /strʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm

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strum (third-person singular simple present strums, present participle strumming, simple past and past participle strummed)

1. (ambitransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.
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strum (plural strums)

1. The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.

   hear the strum of a guitar

2. The act of strumming.

   give the banjo a little strum

• strum box

• Sturm, turms

Not attested until the 20th century. A byform of strugë (“swamp; furrow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɾum/
• Rhymes: -um

strum m (plural struma, definite strumi, definite plural strumat)

1. deep pool in a river

   Synonym: pellg

2. furrow, trench for drainage in a swampy place
3. swamp, wetland, swampland

   Synonyms: ligatinë, moçal

• “strum,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980, page 1797b
• Svane, Gunnar (1992), Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Acta Iutlandica. Humanistische Reihe; 67) (in German), Åarhus: Aarhus University Press, →ISBN, page 171f.
• Orel, Vladimir (1998), “strum”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 404