different between tabour vs tambour

English

Noun

tabour (plural tabours)

1. (music) Alternative spelling of tabor

Verb

tabour (third-person singular simple present tabours, present participle tabouring, simple past and past participle taboured)

1. Alternative spelling of tabor

Anagrams

• Aburto, Otruba, bar out, outbar, rubato

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic ????????? (?unb?r), perhaps influenced by Persian ????? (tabir, “drum”). Compare Armenian ????? (tawi?), and tabla.

Noun

tambour (countable and uncountable, plural tambours)

1. (music) A small shallow drum.
2. A circular frame for embroidery.
3. A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
4. Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
5. (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
6. (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”)
7. (military) A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
8. (biology) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
9. (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
   • 2019, Simon Horobin, Bagels, Bumf, and Buses (page 150)

     One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably.

Translations

Verb

tambour (third-person singular simple present tambours, present participle tambouring, simple past and past participle tamboured)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “tambour”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (?unb?r) or Persian ????? (tabir, “drum”), related to Armenian ????? (tawi?), English tabla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.bu?/

Noun

tambour m (plural tambours)

1. drum (instrument)
2. tambour (sports / real tennis)

Derived terms

• tambour battant

See also

• batterie f

Descendants

• ? Romanian: tambur
• ? Swedish: tambur

Further reading

• “tambour” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French tambour

Noun

tambour

1. drum

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), ultimately from Arabic ????????? (?unb?r).

Noun

tambour m (plural tambours)

1. (Jersey) drum

Derived terms

• tambour-mâjeur (“drum major”)

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French tambour

Noun

tambour

1. drum

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français