The story
- Arabic · derived fromطُنْبُور
- French · borrowed fromtambour“drum”
- English todaytambour
Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tabor and tanbur. Compare Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), and tabla.
Words from the same roots
Frenchtambour all →
tambourine
Arabicطُنْبُور all →
tabortambourine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.