tambourine

See also: tambouriné

English

Etymology

From French tambourin (“little drum”), from French tambour (“drum”). Ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr); see it and Persian تنبور for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtæm.bəˈɹiːn/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: tam‧bour‧ine

Noun

tambourine (plural tambourines)

1. A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
2. A tambourine dove.
   • 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves, page 78:

     Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.

3. A kind of Provençal dance.
4. The music for this dance.

Derived terms

• tambourinist

Translations

percussion instrument

• Arabic: دَفّ m (daff)
• Armenian: դահիրա (hy) (dahira), դափ (hy) (dapʻ)
• Bhojpuri: डफला (ḍaphᵊlā)
• Bulgarian: дайре (bg) n (dajre)
• Catalan: pandereta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鈴鼓 / 铃鼓 (ling⁴ gu²)

  Mandarin: 鈴鼓 / 铃鼓 (zh) (línggǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: dare
• Czech: tamburína f
• Danish: tamburin c
• Dutch: tamboerijn (nl) m
• Esperanto: tamburino
• Finnish: tamburiini (fi)
• French: tambour de basque (fr) m, tambourin (fr) m
• Galician: pandeireta (gl) f, pandeiro (gl) m
• German: Tamburin (de) n
• Greek: ντέφι (el) n (ntéfi)
• Hindi: डफली (hi) f (ḍaphlī), डफ (hi) m (ḍaph), डफला (hi) m (ḍaphlā), ढप (hi) m (ḍhap), ढपला (hi) m (ḍhaplā), दफला (hi) m (daphlā), डफनी (hi) f (ḍaphnī)
• Hungarian: csörgődob (hu), tambura (hu)
• Icelandic: tambúrína f
• Irish: tambóirín m, tiompán m
• Italian: tamburello (it) m
• Japanese: タンバリン (ja) (tanbarin), 鈴鼓 (reiko, rinko, suzuko)
• Korean: 탬버린 (taembeorin)
• Malay: tamborin
• Maori: timipera, tatangi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tamburin m

  Nynorsk: tamburin m

• Persian: دایره زنگی (fa) (dâyere-zangi), شندف (fa) (šandaf)
• Polish: tamburyn (pl) m, tamburyno (pl) n
• Portuguese: pandeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: tamburină (ro) f
• Russian: бу́бен (ru) m (búben), тамбури́н (ru) m (tamburín)
• Shor: тӱӱр
• Spanish: pandereta (es) f, pandero (es) m
• Swedish: tamburin (sv) c
• Tagalog: panderetas
• Turkish: tef (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎔 (tp)
• Ukrainian: бу́бон (uk) m (búbon)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} trống lục lạc, ^{(please verify)} trống prôvăng
• Welsh: tambwrîn m

Verb

tambourine (third-person singular simple present tambourines, present participle tambourining, simple past and past participle tambourined)

1. To play the tambourine.
2. To make a sound like a tambourine.
   • 1995, Henri Cole, The Look of Things, page 23:

     Rain tambourined on the stately square.

Anagrams

• ibutamoren

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tambourinent, tambourines

Verb

tambourine

1. inflection of tambouriner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative