timbale

From French timbale.

timbale (plural timbales)

1. A drum-shaped mould used to cook food.
2. An individual serving of food so cooked.
   1. A dish of poultry or fish pounded and mixed with egg white, cream, etc., poured into a mould.

• bimetal, limbate

Alteration of tamballe (as though formed from cimbale + timbre), from Old Occitan tambala, from Arabic طَبْل‎ (ṭabl).

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃.bal/

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timbale f (plural timbales)

1. (music) kettledrum; timpani
2. (metal) cup, goblet
3. (cooking) timbale (mould)

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