timbre

See also Timbre

English

WOTD - 5 January 2012    

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: tăm'bə(r), IPA: /ˈtæmbə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /"t{mb@(r)/
• (US) enPR: tăm'bə(r), tĭm'bə(r), IPA: /ˈtæm.bɚ/, /ˈtɪm.bɚ/, SAMPA: /"t{mb@`/, /"tImb@`/

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• Homophone: timber

Noun

timbre (plural timbres)

1. The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.

Translations

quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume

Bulgarian: тембър (bg) m. Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: barva zvuku (cs) m. Finnish: sointiväri (fi) German: Klangfarbe (de) f., Timbre (de) n. Greek: ηχόχρωμα (el) (ichochroma) n.

Icelandic: hljómblær (is) m., tónblær (is) m. Italian: timbro (it) m. Portuguese: timbre (pt) m. Russian: тембр (ru) (tembr) m. Spanish: timbre (es) m. Swedish: klang (sv) c., klangfärg (sv) c., timbre (sv) c.

Anagrams

• timber

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɛ̃bʁ/

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Noun

timbre m. (plural timbres)

1. small bell
2. (postage) stamp, postage stamp
3. stamp (mark)
4. (music) timbre

Derived terms

• timbrer

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtim.bɾe/

Wikipedia ^es

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology 1

From French timbre "quality of a sound", and earlier "sound of a bell", in Old French "bell without a clapper, drum", via Byzantine Greek from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (tympanon) "drum".

Noun

timbre m. (plural timbres)

1. bell
2. doorbell
3. stamp
4. postmark
5. seal
6. timbre

Synonyms

• (bell): campana
• (stamp): sello
• (postmark): matasellos
• (seal): sello

Related terms

• timbrar
• timbrazo

Etymology 2

Verb

timbre (infinitive timbrar)

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of timbrar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of timbrar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of timbrar.