tambour
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), perhaps influenced by Persian تبیر (tabir, “drum”). Compare Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), and tabla.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tambour (countable and uncountable, plural tambours)
- (music) A small shallow drum.
- A circular frame for embroidery.
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.i:
- Recollect Lady Teazle when I saw you first—sitting at your tambour in a pretty figured linen gown—
- A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
- Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
- (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
- (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”)
- (military) A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
- (biology) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
- (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
- 2019, Simon Horobin, Bagels, Bumf, and Buses, page 150:
- One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably.
- A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
drum — see drum
circular frame for embroidery
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Verb edit
tambour (third-person singular simple present tambours, present participle tambouring, simple past and past participle tamboured)
- (transitive, intransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- “tambour”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr) or Persian تبیر (tabir, “drum”), related to Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), English tabla.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tambour m (plural tambours)
- drum (instrument)
- 2015 July 31, “En Ethiopie, Arthur Rimbaud, inconnu de Harar”, in Le Monde[1]:
- Le responsable fait allusion aux rituels zikri où les croyants prononcent continuellement le nom Allah en battant du tambour dans un des 180 sanctuaires et mosquées de la cité près desquels flotte parfois une agréable odeur encens.
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- tambour (sports / real tennis)
- revolving door
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
See also edit
- batterie f
Further reading edit
- “tambour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Mauritian Creole edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
tambour
References edit
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr).
Noun edit
tambour m (plural tambours)
Derived terms edit
- tambour-mâjeur (“drum major”)
Seychellois Creole edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
tambour
References edit
- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français