tambrin
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Jamaican Creole[edit]
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tambrin (plural tambrin dem, quantified tambrin)
- A tamarind.
- 2002, Frederic G. Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page, Dictionary of Jamaican English (in English), →ISBN, page 437:
- “TAMBRAN, TAMBRIN sb dial; the common folk pronunc of tamarind (through normal loss of -d, effect of vowel harmony changing i>a, and articulative intrusion of b after m). Tamarind. […] ”