tambour
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tabor. Compare Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), and tabla.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈtæmbʊə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
edittambour (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
editTranslations
editdrum — see drum
circular frame for embroidery
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Verb
edittambour (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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr) or Persian تبیر (tabir, “drum”), related to Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), English tabla.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittambour 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- tambour (sports / real tennis)
- revolving door
Derived terms
editDescendants
editSee also
edit- batterie f
Further reading
edit- “tambour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Mauritian Creole
editEtymology
editNoun
edittambour
References
edit- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Norman
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French tambour (“drum”), ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr).
Noun
edittambour m (plural tambours)
Derived terms
edit- tambour-mâjeur (“drum major”)
Seychellois Creole
editEtymology
editNoun
edittambour
References
edit- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
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