Etymology

tambou

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Today it means: A type of drum in the French Caribbean, made of a hollowed-out tree trunk covered in animal skin. Full definition →

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The story

From Haitian Creole, variant of tanbou.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.