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tambora

tambora noun: a small two-headed drum, used in Dominican merengue music, usually played by striking one side with a mallet and the other with the hand.

Noun

tambora (plural tamboras)

  1. A small two-headed drum, used in Dominican merengue music, usually played by striking one side with a mallet and the other with the hand.
  2. A large two-headed bass drum, used in Mexican banda and regional genres like tamborazo, usually played by striking both sides with a mallet (bolillo).
  3. A wide two-headed drum used mainly in Colombian cumbia, played by striking both sides with heavy sticks (baquetas).

Proper noun capitalized: Tambora

Tambora

  1. An active stratovolcano in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
  2. An extinct non-Austronesian (Papuan) language of the Tambora culture of central Sumbawa, in contemporary Indonesia.

Forms of tambora

pluraltamboras

Origin of tambora

From Spanish tambor.

Questions about tambora

What does tambora mean?
Tambora means a small two-headed drum, used in Dominican merengue music, usually played by striking one side with a mallet and the other with the hand.
What part of speech is tambora?
Tambora can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of tambora?
The plural of tambora is tamboras.

Words near tambora in the dictionary

  1. tambool
  2. Tamboon
  3. tamboos
  4. Tambopata
  5. Tambor de Mina
  6. tambora
  7. tamboras
  8. tamborazo
  9. Tamborello
  10. Tamborellos
  11. tambori

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