sampura

Kari'na

Alternative forms

• tamporu (Venezuela)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tambora, tambor.

Pronunciation

• (Suriname) IPA^(key): [sambuɺ̢a]

Noun

sampura (possessed sampurary)

1. (Guyana, Suriname) drum

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 362
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “sambura”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 423; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[2], Paris, 1956, page 413