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tarbouka

tarbouka is the alternative form of darbuka.

Meaning of darbuka

Noun

darbuka (plural darbukas)

  1. A type of goblet drum, originating in the Middle East and North Africa.
    • Assembled guests participate by clapping their hands to mark the rhythm. In rare cases, however, is the little drum duf or darbaka employed.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 370

Forms of tarbouka

pluraltarboukas

Questions about tarbouka

What is tarbouka the alternative form of?
Tarbouka is the alternative form of darbuka.

Words near tarbouka in the dictionary

  1. tarbosaurs
  2. Tarbot
  3. tarbouche
  4. tarbouched
  5. tarbouches
  6. tarbouka
  7. tarboukas
  8. tarboush
  9. tarboushed
  10. tarboushes
  11. Tarbox

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarbouka (page history and authors); darbuka (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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