Talk:答臘鼓

Etymology
I think this term may derive from the word tabla. 173.89.236.187 05:43, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * That doesn't make much sense. It already has a rfe tag, no need to put attention on the talkpage. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:48, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

The names of many traditional Chinese musical instruments (especially those with two syllables/characters, which make no sense if attempting to translate the characters literally) are phonetic borrowings from the names of these instruments in non-Chinese languages--often Turkic or Indo-European--when those instruments were borrowed from cultures living to China's west. This is likely one of those. 173.89.236.187 21:35, 4 June 2016 (UTC)