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timbrel (n.)
"percussive Middle Eastern instrument," c.1500, diminutive of
timbre
(q.v.) in its older French sense of "drum." Used in Bible translations, chiefly to render Hebrew
taph
, cognate with Arabic
duff
"drum," of imitative origin.
