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Etymology

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From Middle Persian tmbwl, tnbwl (tambūr) (Manichaean Middle Persian tmbwr (tambūr)). According to Watkins, possibly (with metathesis of consonants) from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra, three-stringed lute).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? tanbūr
Dari reading? tanbūr
Iranian reading? tanbur
Tajik reading? tanbur

Noun

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Dari تنبور
Iranian Persian
Tajik танбур

تنبور (tanbur) (plural تنبورها (tanbur-hâ))

  1. tanbur

Inflection

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    Basic forms of تنبور (tanbur)
singular plural
bare تنبور
(tanbur)
تنبورها
(tanbur-hấ)
تنبورا
(tanburấ)
definitive direct object تنبور را
(tanbur râ)
تنبور رو
(tanburo)
تنبورها را
(tanbur-hấ râ)
تنبورا رو
(tanburấ ro)
ezâfe تنبور
(tanbur-e)
تنبورهای
(tanbur-hấ-ye)
تنبورای
(tanburấ-ye)
marked indefinite
or relative definite
تنبوری
(tanbur-i)
تنبورهایی
(tanburấn-i, tanbur-hấ-i)
تنبورایی
(tanburấi)
Colloquial.
    Possessive forms of تنبور (tanbur)
singular plural
1st person singular
(“my”)
تنبورم
(tanbúram)
تنبورهایم
(tanbur-hấyam)
تنبورهام، تنبورام
(tanburấm)
2nd person singular
(“your”)
تنبورت
(tanbúrat)
[Term?]
(tanbúret)
تنبورهایت
(tanbur-hấyat)
تنبورهات، تنبورات
(tanburất)
3rd person singular
(“his, her, its”)
تنبورش
(tanbúraš)
[Term?]
(tanbúreš)
تنبورهایش
(tanbur-hấyaš)
تنبورهاش، تنبوراش
(tanburấš)
1st plural
(“our”)
تنبورمان
(tanbúremân)
تنبورمون
(tanbúremun)
تنبورهایمان
(tanbur-hấyemân)
تنبورهامون، تنبورامون
(tanburấmun)
2nd plural
(“your”)
تنبورتان
(tanbúretân)
تنبورتون
(tanbúretun)
تنبورهایتان
(tanbur-hấyetân)
تنبورهاتون، تنبوراتون
(tanburấtun)
3rd plural
(“their”)
تنبورشان
(tanbúrešân)
تنبورشون
(tanbúrešun)
تنبورهایشان
(tanbur-hấyešân)
تنبورهاشون، تنبوراشون
(tanburấšun)
Colloquial.

References

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  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “tambūr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “tmbwr”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols
  1. ^ tanbur”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ^ Baevskii, S. I. (2007). Early Persian Lexicography: Farhangs of the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Centuries. Netherlands: Brill., p. 192