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tanbur

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian تنبور (tanbur).

Noun

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tanbur (plural tanburs)

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

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Maltese

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Root
t-n-b-r
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Etymology

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From Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tanbur m (plural tnabar, diminutive tnajbar)

  1. drum

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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tànbūr m (Cyrillic spelling та̀нбӯр)

  1. tanbur

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Further reading

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  • tanbur”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024