timpani

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian timpani, plural of timpano (“drum”), from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (tumpanon), from τύπτω (tuptō, “I strike, I hit”).

Noun

timpani (usually uncountable; plural timpanis)

1. (plural only, music) The set of precision kettledrums in an orchestra.

Derived terms

• timpanist

Synonyms

• kettledrums, temple drums, timps

Translations

kettledrums

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定音鼓 (cmn) (dìngyīngǔ)

• Dutch: pauk (nl)
• Esperanto: timbalo (eo)
• Finnish: patarummut (fi)
• French: timbales (fr)
• German: Pauke (de) f, Kesselpauken (de) f pl
• Hungarian: üstdob (hu)

• Irish: tiompán (ga) m
• Italian: timpani (it) pl
• Russian: литавры (ru) (litávry) f pl 
• Slovene: pavke (sl) f pl
• Spanish: tímpano (es) m, tímpanos (es) m pl
• Tajik: нақора (tg) (naqora)
• Vietnamese: trống định âm (vi)

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Italian

Noun

timpani m

1. Plural form of timpano

Anagrams

• impinta, tampini