I gave my dad a tambourine as a gift.
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Tambourine
//ˌtæm.bəˈɹiːn//
Synonyms for "tambourine" (32 found)
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Related words (16)
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63 translations across 43 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- دَفّ noun (percussion instrument)
Armenian
2 entries- դահիրա noun (percussion instrument)
- դափ noun (percussion instrument)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- डफला noun (percussion instrument)
Bulgarian
1 entries- дайре noun (percussion instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- pandereta noun (percussion instrument)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 鈴鼓 /铃鼓 noun (percussion instrument)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鈴鼓 /铃鼓 noun (percussion instrument)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- dare noun (percussion instrument)
Czech
1 entries- tamburína noun (percussion instrument)
Danish
1 entries- tamburin noun (percussion instrument)
Dutch
1 entries- tamboerijn noun (percussion instrument)
Esperanto
1 entries- tamburino noun (percussion instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- tamburiini noun (percussion instrument)
French
2 entries- tambour de basque noun (percussion instrument)
- tambourin noun (percussion instrument)
Galician
2 entries- pandeireta noun (percussion instrument)
- pandeiro noun (percussion instrument)
German
1 entries- Tamburin noun (percussion instrument)
Greek
1 entries- ντέφι noun (percussion instrument)
Hindi
4 entries- डफ noun (percussion instrument)
- डफनी noun (percussion instrument)
- डफला noun (percussion instrument)
- डफली noun (percussion instrument)
Hungarian
2 entries- csörgődob noun (percussion instrument)
- tambura noun (percussion instrument)
Icelandic
1 entries- tambúrína noun (percussion instrument)
Irish
2 entries- tambóirín noun (percussion instrument)
- tiompán noun (percussion instrument)
Italian
1 entries- tamburello noun (percussion instrument)
Japanese
2 entries- タンバリン noun (percussion instrument)
- 鈴鼓 noun (percussion instrument)
Korean
1 entries- 탬버린 noun (percussion instrument)
Malay
1 entries- tamborin noun (percussion instrument)
Māori
2 entries- tatangi noun (percussion instrument)
- timipera noun (percussion instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tamburin noun (percussion instrument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- tamburin noun (percussion instrument)
Nǀuu
2 entries- tamboreen noun (percussion instrument)
- tamboreensi noun (percussion instrument)
Persian
3 entries- دایره زنگی noun (percussion instrument)
- دَفّ noun (percussion instrument)
- شندف noun (percussion instrument)
Polish
2 entries- tamburyn noun (percussion instrument)
- tamburyno noun (percussion instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- pandeiro noun (percussion instrument)
Romanian
1 entries- tamburină noun (percussion instrument)
Russian
2 entries- бу́бен noun (percussion instrument)
- тамбури́н noun (percussion instrument)
Shor
1 entries- тӱӱр noun (percussion instrument)
Spanish
2 entries- pandereta noun (percussion instrument)
- pandero noun (percussion instrument)
Swedish
1 entries- tamburin noun (percussion instrument)
Tagalog
1 entries- panderetas noun (percussion instrument)
Turkish
1 entries- tef noun (percussion instrument)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎚𐎔 noun (percussion instrument)
Ukrainian
1 entries- бу́бон noun (percussion instrument)
Urdu
2 entries- ڈَپھ noun (percussion instrument)
- ڈَھپ noun (percussion instrument)
Welsh
1 entries- tambwrîn noun (percussion instrument)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
That tambourine is broken.
Source: tatoeba (1656470)
Tom plays the tambourine.
Source: tatoeba (5276546)
I play the tambourine and sing.
Source: tatoeba (6789921)
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