tambour

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A small shallow drum.
2. (countable, uncountable) A circular frame for embroidery.
3. (countable, uncountable) A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
4. (countable, uncountable) Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
5. (countable, uncountable) The capital of a Corinthian column.
6. (countable, uncountable) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
7. (countable, uncountable) 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.
8. (countable, uncountable) 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.
9. (countable, uncountable) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
10. (countable, uncountable) A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.

Verb

To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).

Έννοιες

τύμπανο

Συνώνυμα

drum

🥁

embroidery hoop

embroidery frame

timpano

tympan

membranophone

tabouret

lace-frame

barrel

drum-shaped column

jerrycan

lobby

Μεταφράσεις

tambor

🥁

trampet

kasnak

Kanister

Stickrahmen

bidone

🥁

tamburello

tamboereerraam

trom

🥁

bidón

🥁

kasnağa gerip işlemek

kasnak işi

الدفّ

ufak davul

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈtæmbʊə(ɹ)/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Συγγενές με Αρμενικά: տաւիղ

In summary

Borrowed 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.