A traditional musical instrument or ceremonial object from Pacific Islander cultures; specific cultural artifact with regional significance.
From Austronesian or Pacific Islander languages; origin and exact etymology not widely documented in English lexicography. Represents cultural terminology adopted into English ethnographic discourse.
Words like gigunu remind us that English dictionaries are often incomplete about non-Western cultures—many Pacific instruments and objects have no equivalent English terms.
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