tamboura
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of tamboura
from Persian tanbūr, from Arabic tunbūr
Example Sentences
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It starts with my mother, Moki Cherry, on tamboura droning away and Charlie Haden’s sublime bass; this goes on for several minutes.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024
He was barefoot, wearing a long white robe and carrying a tamboura for chanting.
From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2019
On sitar and tamboura, he achieves a remarkable Pop synthesis.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2017
Even their little-documented second incarnation in the mid-1990s – where they shed their shambolic guitar/bass/drums lineup and regrouped with sitar, tamboura, dhol drum and harmonium – scarcely saw them move out of the indie circuit.
From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2011
I was told that there are some men amongst them, who play the tamboura, a sort of guitar, but I never heard any of them perform.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
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