Meaning

2 senses

  1. To play the tambourine.

  2. To make a sound like a tambourine.

Examples

9 sentences

  1. I play the tambourine and sing.

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  2. I got stuck playing the tambourine.

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  3. I play tambourine.

    ruЯ играю на тамбурине. — marafon

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  4. Tom plays the tambourine.

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  5. I gave my dad a tambourine as a gift.

    ruЯ своему папе бубен подарил. — FeuDRenais

    deIch schenkte meinem Papa ein Tamburin. — Esperantostern

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Origin

From French tambourin (“little drum”), from French tambour (“drum”). Ultimately from Arabi

From French tambourin (“little drum”), from French tambour (“drum”). Ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr); see it and Persian تنبور for more.

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Forms

tambourines, tambourining, tambourined, tambourined
Base formtambourine · to tambourine
3rd person singulartambourines
Present participletambourining
Past simpletambourined
Past participletambourined

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytambourine
he, she, ittambourines

Past simpleLesson

all personstambourined

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tambourined
he, she, ithas tambourined

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tambourine

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tamatamaletamaratamarindtameB2tamper
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