The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Tambourine — Personnage de Dragon Ball Activité(s) Combattant Cr … Wikipédia en Français
tambouriné — tambouriné, ée (tan bou ri né, née) part. passé de tambouriner. Un chien tambouriné et retrouvé … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
Tambourine — Tam bour*ine , n. A South American wild dove ({Tympanistria tympanistria}), mostly white, with black tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
tambourine — (n.) 1782, in the modern sense of parchment covered hoop with pieces of metal attached; earlier a small drum (1570s), from Fr. tambourin long narrow drum used in Provence, dim. of tambour drum, altered by influence of Arabic tunbur drum… … Etymology dictionary
tambourine — ► NOUN ▪ a percussion instrument resembling a shallow drum with metal discs around the edge, played by being shaken or hit with the hand. ORIGIN French tambourin small tambour … English terms dictionary
tambourine — [tam΄bə rēn′] n. [Fr tambourin: see TAMBOURIN] a shallow, single headed hand drum having jingling metal disks in the rim: it is played by shaking, hitting with the knuckles, etc. tambourinist n … English World dictionary
Tambourine — Infobox Instrument name=Tambourine names=Riq, Buben classification=hand percussion range=High sound of jingles, plus some have a skin with a lower sound. related=Riq, Buben, Dayereh, Daf, Kanjira, Frame drum [ Charles Sprague Pearce. Library of… … Wikipedia
tambourine — tambourinist, n. /tam beuh reen /, n. a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like. [1570 80;… … Universalium
tambourine — n. to play (on) the tambourine * * * [ˌtæmbə riːn] to play (on) the tambourine … Combinatory dictionary
tambourine — [16] Tambourine is one of a small family of English words that go back ultimately to Persian tabīr ‘drum’. This found its way via Provençal tabor and Old French tabour into English as tabor ‘small drum’ [13]. The Persian word was adopted into… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
