tambora
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English
Etymology
From Spanish tambor.
Noun
tambora (plural tamboras)
- A two-headed Dominican drum used in merengue music.
Spanish
Noun
tambora f (plural tamboras)
- bombo, bombo criollo
- 2015 October 28, “Un popular cantante de corridos mexicanos, acusado de fraude”, in El País:
- Julio Preciado es para la banda y la tambora, la música típica del noroeste mexicano, lo que Julio Iglesias al pop internacional.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “tambora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28