tanbur

See also: tanbûr

English

A man playing a Kurdish tanbur

Alternative forms

• tambur

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تنبور (tanbur). Doublet of tabor and tambour.

Noun

tanbur (plural tanburs)

1. (music) In classical Turkish music, a long-necked, fretted, plucked lute, or various similar lutes of West and Central Asia.

Translations

instrument

• Arabic: طنبور m (tanbūr)
• Azerbaijani: tənbur
• Finnish: pitkäkaulaluuttu
• French: tanbour (fr) m
• Gurani: تەمۊرە
• Hindi: तंबूरा (hi) m (tambūrā), तानपूरा (hi) m (tānpūrā), तुम्बुरु (hi) m (tumburu), तुम्बुरी (hi) f (tumburī), तुम्बरु (hi) m (tumbaru)
• Persian: تنبور (fa) (tanbur)
• Romanian: tambură (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: tànbūr (sh) m
• Turkish: tambur (tr)
• Uyghur: تەمبۈر (tembür)

Further reading

• tanbur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nut bar, nut-bar, nutbar, turban

Maltese

Root
t-n-b-r
4 terms

Alternative forms

• tambur

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle Persianbor.

Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr)

Maltese tanbur

Inherited from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tamˈbuːr/
• Rhymes: -uːr

Noun

tanbur m (plural tnabar, diminutive tnajbar)

1. drum

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• tàmbūr

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طنبوره (tanbura), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from Persian دنب بره (donb-e barre, literally “lamb's tail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǎnbuːr/
• Hyphenation: tan‧bur

Noun

tànbūr m inan (Cyrillic spelling та̀нбӯр)

1. tanbur

Declension

Declension of tanbur

	singular	plural
nominative	tànbūr	tanburi
genitive	tanbúra	tanbura
dative	tanburu	tanburima
accusative	tanbur	tanbure
vocative	tanbure	tanburi
locative	tanburu	tanburima
instrumental	tanburom	tanburima

Further reading

• “tanbur”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026