timbaln.

/ˈtɪmbəl/

Forms: Also timbul, tymbal.

Etymology: = modern French timbale (1646 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), Italian timballo , Spanish timbal , Portuguese timbal , timbale , substituted for, and apparently altered from, earlier French attabale (Cotgrave 1611), Italian taballo (Florio 1611), Spanish atabal , Portuguese attabale , see atabal n. It is not clear in which language or under what influence the change was made (perhaps in Italian, which had already dropped initial a): compare the French alteration of tabour to tambour. The spelling tymbal was apparently due to the influence of cymbal.

1. A kettledrum. Now Historical or archaic.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > kettledrum

nakerc1385

canayr1523

naquaire1523

kettle1604

kettledrum1604

atabal1672

timbal1680

tymbalon1817

1680 London Gaz. No. 1484/1 The Trumpets and Timbals led the way.

c1709 M. Prior Charity 15 A tymbal's sound were better than my voice.

1713 London Gaz. No. 5106/2 Two hundred of their People [Turks] riding..with Timbals and Chalumeaux.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1846) V. l. 15 A chorus of women, striking their tymbals, and displaying the pomp of their nuptials.

1813 Arabian Nts. III. 345 [They] danced and skipped about him to the sound of the tymbals.

2. = timbale n. 1.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > sound-producing organ > membrane producing chirping

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1929 J. G. Myers Insect Singers vi. 77 The essential elements of the [sound-producing] apparatus are the tymbals and the tymbal-muscles.

1969 R. F. Chapman Insects xxviii. 585 In the dorso-lateral region of the first segment of Platypleura (Cicadidae) there is on each side an area of very thin cuticle supported by a thick cuticular rim... This area of cuticle forms the tymbal.

Derivatives

† ˈtymbalon n. [arbitrary form of timbal n.] Obsolete

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