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tarpa

tarpa noun: a wind instrument that is played by blowing into a reservoir chamber that is connected to two bamboo pipes attached to a resonating chamber. It is primarily played by the Western Indian Warli tribe.

Noun

tarpa (plural tarpas)

  1. A wind instrument that is played by blowing into a reservoir chamber that is connected to two bamboo pipes attached to a resonating chamber. It is primarily played by the Western Indian Warli tribe.

Forms of tarpa

pluraltarpas

Origin of tarpa

From Marathi तारपा (tārpā)

Questions about tarpa

What does tarpa mean?
Tarpa means a wind instrument that is played by blowing into a reservoir chamber that is connected to two bamboo pipes attached to a resonating chamber. It is primarily played by the Western Indian Warli tribe.
What part of speech is tarpa?
Tarpa is a noun.
What is the plural of tarpa?
The plural of tarpa is tarpas.

Words near tarpa in the dictionary

  1. tarotologists
  2. tarotology
  3. tarots
  4. Taroudant
  5. tarp
  6. tarpa
  7. tarpan
  8. tarpans
  9. tarpaper
  10. tarpapered
  11. tarpapering

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