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tambor.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
tambor.
Principal English Translation:
a drum; this loanword could refer to an Indigenous drum or an imported European drum (SW)
Orthographic Variants:
tabul, tampul
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents tambor in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).