tambourine

From French tambourin (“little drum”), from French tambour (“drum”). Ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr).

• IPA^(key): /ˌtæm.bəˈɹiːn/

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• Hyphenation: tam‧bour‧ine

tambourine (plural tambourines)

1. A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
2. A tambourine dove.
   • 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves, page 78:

     Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.

3. A kind of Provençal dance.
4. The music for this dance.

• tambourinist

tambourine (third-person singular simple present tambourines, present participle tambourining, simple past and past participle tambourined)

1. To play the tambourine.
2. To make a sound like a tambourine.
   • 1995, Henri Cole, The Look of Things, page 23:

     Rain tambourined on the stately square.

• ibutamoren

• Homophones: tambourinent, tambourines

tambourine

1. inflection of tambouriner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative