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percussion instrument

percussion instrument noun: an instrument in which the sound is produced by striking, scraping or shaking an object.

Noun

percussion instrument (plural percussion instruments)

  1. An instrument in which the sound is produced by striking, scraping or shaking an object.

percussion instrument meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Tagalog

percussion instrument in Tamil

மோதுகைக்கருவி

percussion instrument in Malayalam

type of instrument
താളവാദ്യം tāḷavādyaṁ

percussion instrument in Kannada

ತಟ್ಟಿ ಬಾರಿಸುವ ವಾದ್ಯ, ತಾಳವಾದ್ಯ, ಆನದ್ಧವಾದ್ಯ

percussion instrument in Tagalog

type of instrument
linggalang panugtog
More languagesFewer languages
percussion instrument in Persian
ساز کوبهای sâz-e kube-'i

Forms of percussion instrument

pluralpercussion instruments

Questions about percussion instrument

What does percussion instrument mean?
Percussion instrument means an instrument in which the sound is produced by striking, scraping or shaking an object.
What is percussion instrument in Tamil?
Percussion instrument in Tamil is மோதுகைக்கருவி. See Percussion instrument meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is percussion instrument?
Percussion instrument is a noun.
What is the plural of percussion instrument?
The plural of percussion instrument is percussion instruments.

Words near percussion instrument in the dictionary

  1. percussion fuses
  2. percussion hammer
  3. percussion hammers
  4. percussion idiophone
  5. percussion idiophones
  6. percussion instrument
  7. percussion instruments
  8. percussion lock
  9. percussion locks
  10. percussion notation
  11. percussional

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Adapted from Wiktionary: percussion instrument (page history and authors); percussion instrument (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); percussion instrument (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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