tambour

Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور‎ (ṭunbūr).

tambour (countable and uncountable, plural tambours)

1. (obsolete, 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. (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.
7. (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.
8. (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall

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).

Ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور‎ (ṭunbūr).

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.buʁ/

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tambour m (plural tambours)

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

• batterie f

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

From French tambour

tambour

1. drum

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

Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور‎ (ṭunbūr).

tambour m (plural tambours)

1. (Jersey) drum

• tambour-mâjeur (“drum major”)

From French tambour

tambour

1. drum

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