"tambourine" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌtæm.bəˈɹiːn/ Audio: en-us-tambourine.ogg [US] Forms: tambourines [plural]
Etymology: From French tambourin (“little drum”), from French tambour (“drum”). Ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|tambourin||little drum}} French tambourin (“little drum”), {{der|en|fr|tambour||drum}} French tambour (“drum”), {{der|en|ar|طُنْبُور}} Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr) Head templates: {{en-noun}} tambourine (plural tambourines)
  1. A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum. Categories (topical): Musical genres, Percussion instruments Translations (percussion instrument): دَفّ (daff) [masculine] (Arabic), դահիրա (dahira) (Armenian), դափ (dapʻ) (Armenian), дайре (dajre) [neuter] (Bulgarian), pandereta [feminine] (Catalan), 鈴鼓 (Chinese Cantonese), 铃鼓 (ling⁴ gu²) (Chinese Cantonese), 鈴鼓 (Chinese Mandarin), 铃鼓 (línggǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), dare (Crimean Tatar), tamburína [feminine] (Czech), tamburin [common-gender] (Danish), tamboerijn [masculine] (Dutch), tamburino (Esperanto), tamburiini (Finnish), tambour de basque [masculine] (French), tambourin [masculine] (French), pandeireta [feminine] (Galician), pandeiro [masculine] (Galician), Tamburin [neuter] (German), ντέφι (ntéfi) [neuter] (Greek), डफली (ḍaphlī) [feminine] (Hindi), डफ (ḍaph) [masculine] (Hindi), डफला (ḍaphlā) [masculine] (Hindi), ढप (ḍhap) [masculine] (Hindi), ढपला (ḍhaplā) [masculine] (Hindi), दफला (daphlā) [masculine] (Hindi), डफनी (ḍaphnī) [feminine] (Hindi), csörgődob (Hungarian), tambura (Hungarian), tambúrína [feminine] (Icelandic), tambóirín [masculine] (Irish), tiompán [masculine] (Irish), tamburello [masculine] (Italian), タンバリン (tanbarin) (Japanese), 鈴鼓 (reiko, rinko, suzuko) (Japanese), 탬버린 (taembeorin) (Korean), tamborin (Malay), timipera (Maori), tatangi (Maori), tamburin [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tamburin [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), دایره زنگی (dâyere-zangi) (Persian), شندف (šandaf) (Persian), tamburyn [masculine] (Polish), tamburyno [neuter] (Polish), pandeiro [masculine] (Portuguese), tamburină [feminine] (Romanian), бу́бен (búben) [masculine] (Russian), тамбури́н (tamburín) [masculine] (Russian), тӱӱр (Shor), pandereta [feminine] (Spanish), pandero [masculine] (Spanish), tamburin [common-gender] (Swedish), panderetas (Tagalog), 𐎚𐎔 (tp) (Ugaritic), бу́бон (búbon) [masculine] (Ukrainian), tambwrîn [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-tambourine-en-noun-6dqodnB- Disambiguation of Musical genres: 40 31 1 11 10 6 Disambiguation of Percussion instruments: 58 27 1 5 5 4 Disambiguation of 'percussion instrument': 62 37 0 2
  2. A tambourine dove. Categories (topical): Dances Categories (lifeform): Columbids
    Sense id: en-tambourine-en-noun-btP4roUS Disambiguation of Dances: 21 29 14 20 11 5 Disambiguation of Columbids: 18 77 2 2 1 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 59 0 1 4 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 34 61 0 1 3 1
  3. A kind of Provençal dance.
    Sense id: en-tambourine-en-noun-E5RssAS5
  4. The music for this dance.
    Sense id: en-tambourine-en-noun-V8NJvGN9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: tambourinist

Verb

IPA: /ˌtæm.bəˈɹiːn/ Audio: en-us-tambourine.ogg [US] Forms: tambourines [present, singular, third-person], tambourining [participle, present], tambourined [participle, past], tambourined [past]
Etymology: From French tambourin (“little drum”), from French tambour (“drum”). Ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|tambourin||little drum}} French tambourin (“little drum”), {{der|en|fr|tambour||drum}} French tambour (“drum”), {{der|en|ar|طُنْبُور}} Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr) Head templates: {{en-verb}} tambourine (third-person singular simple present tambourines, present participle tambourining, simple past and past participle tambourined)
  1. To play the tambourine.
    Sense id: en-tambourine-en-verb-s~YSk3op
  2. To make a sound like a tambourine.
    Sense id: en-tambourine-en-verb-n9Yicmi0

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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Henri Cole, The Look of Things, page 23",
          "text": "Rain tambourined on the stately square.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a sound like a tambourine."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌtæm.bəˈɹiːn/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-tambourine.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8b/En-us-tambourine.ogg/En-us-tambourine.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/En-us-tambourine.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "tambourine"
  ],
  "word": "tambourine"
}

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