drum

Etymology 1
Perhaps, from , from +  (🇨🇬).

Or perhaps borrowed directly from a continental Germanic language; compare, et al. Compare also 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
 * 2) Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
 * 3)  A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
 * 4)   The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
 * 5)  Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
 * 6) A drumfish (family ).
 * 7)  A tip; a piece of information.
 * 8)  The ear.
 * 1)   The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
 * 2)  Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
 * 3) A drumfish (family ).
 * 4)  A tip; a piece of information.
 * 5)  The ear.
 * 1)  The ear.
 * 1)  The ear.

Usage notes
When used in the plural, "drums" or "the drums" often specifically means a drum kit as used for contemporary styles such as rock or jazz; a classical percussionist would be very unlikely to say that they "play the drums" on a piece, even if the only parts they play are, indeed, drums (as opposed to marimba or xylophone or similar.)

Translations

 * Abkhaz: адаул
 * Adyghe: шъонтрып
 * Afrikaans: drom
 * Albanian: ,
 * Ama: ono
 * Amharic: ከበሮ
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: ísaaʼ adííhí
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: طبل
 * Moroccan Arabic: طبل, بندير
 * Aragonese: tambor
 * Argobba: ከበሮ
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: ঢোল
 * Asturian: tambor
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: барабан
 * Basque: danbor
 * Belarusian: бараба́н
 * Bemba: iñ-ñoma
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chamicuro: shiltoki
 * Chechen: вота
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎱᎵ
 * Chichewa: ng'oma
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鼓
 * Dungan:
 * Mandarin:, 堂鼓
 * Chukchi: ярар
 * Chuvash: параппан
 * Classical Nahuatl: huēhuētl
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Emilian:
 * Erzya: барабан
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: trummel, trumm
 * Ewe: ʋu
 * Farefare: lʋŋa, lʋŋã
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ,
 * Ge'ez: ከበሮ
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τύμπανον
 * Haitian Creole: droum
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tromma
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: barabana
 * Ingush: фота
 * Irish: druma
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kalmyk: кеңкрг
 * Karok: imthanuvnôor
 * Kazakh: барабан
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kunigami: 鼓
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دەوڵ, تەپڵ
 * Kyrgyz:, нагара
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian: bungys, bubyns
 * Latin: tympanum
 * Latvian:
 * Ligurian: tambûo
 * Lithuanian: būgnas
 * Lombard: tambór
 * Luhya: engoma
 * Luo: bul
 * Luxembourgish: Tromm
 * Macedonian: та́пан, бараба́н
 * Malay: gendang
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: tanbur
 * Manchu: ᡨᡠᠩᡴᡝᠨ
 * Maori: taramu, pākiri
 * Maranao: tambor
 * Miyako: 鼓
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: ásaaʼ yilghaałí
 * Ngazidja Comorian: ngoma
 * Northern Amami Ōshima: 鼓
 * Northern Sotho: moropa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tromme
 * Nynorsk: tromme
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: dewe'igan
 * Okinawan: 鼓
 * Okinoerabu: 鼓
 * Old Javanese: kĕndang
 * Oromo: dibbee
 * Ossetian: барабан, гуымсӕг
 * Ottoman Turkish: طبل
 * Pashto:, ډمبک
 * Persian:, تمبک, , تبیر,
 * Piedmontese: tanborn
 * Plautdietsch: Dromm
 * Polabian: bǫbån
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rakhine:
 * Rohingya: dhúl
 * Romagnol: tambùr
 * Romani: दऊलि
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: druma
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бу̑бањ, до̑бош
 * Roman: ,
 * Shona: ngoma
 * Sidamo: dibbe
 * Sinhalese: බෙර
 * Slovak: bubon
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: bubon
 * Southern Amami Ōshima: 鼓
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swazi: sí-gúbhu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tambol
 * Tajik: нақора, табл, дуҳул, барабан
 * Taos: múluną
 * Tatar: думбак,, барабан
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རྔ, ཊ་མ་རུ
 * Tocharian B: kerū
 * Tokunoshima: 鼓
 * Tumbuka: ng'oma
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: deprek,, dep
 * Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎔
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ڈرم, ڈھول
 * Uyghur: دۇمباق, داپ, بارابان
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vilamovian: paojk
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: drwm
 * West Frisian: tromme
 * Wutunhua: guu
 * Yaeyama: 鼓
 * Yiddish: פּויק
 * Yucatec Maya: tunk'ul
 * Zulu:


 * Arabic: طَبْلَة
 * Bashkir: барабан
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tromle,
 * Ewe: ʋu
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: tromla
 * Irish: druma
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: ва́лјак, бараба́н
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: trommel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: druma
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ва́љак, бу̑бањ, до̑бош
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Walloon: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: варел,
 * Catalan: barril
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: nappartaq
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: druma
 * Italian:
 * Kabuverdianu: bidon
 * Macedonian: бу́ре
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: druma
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бу̏ре, ба̏чва
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:

Verb

 * 1)  To beat a drum.
 * 2)  To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
 * 3)  To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
 * 4) To throb, as the heart.
 * 5) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
 * 6) Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
 * 1) To throb, as the heart.
 * 2) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
 * 3) Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
 * 1) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
 * 2) Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: бия барабан
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: bubnovat
 * Danish:
 * Ewe: ƒo ʋu
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: לתופף
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tromma
 * Ingrian: barabaanittaa
 * Macedonian: у́дира на та́пан
 * Malay: bergendang
 * Malayalam:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: бить в бараба́н
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бу̀бњати
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: bobnati
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Uzbek: do'mbra


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tromma
 * Ingrian: barabaanittaa
 * Macedonian: чу́ка
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ку̏цати
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: bobnati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Uzbek: do'mbra


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:

Etymology 2
From,.

Noun

 * 1)  A small hill or ridge of hills.

Usage notes

 * Mainly encountered in place names, such as Drumglass and Drumsheugh.

Etymology 3
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Noun

 * 1)  A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
 * 2) * Folio Society 1973, page 631:
 * "en"

- Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.


 * 1)  A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
 * 1)  A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.

Derived terms

 * housebreaker; travelling salesman

Etymology 4
Shortening.

Noun

 * 1)  A  (of chicken, turkey, etc).

Etymology
Borrowed from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) road

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  drum, usually one belonging to a drum kit

Etymology
From the tobacco brand.

Noun

 * 1) roll-your-own

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) road

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) road

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) road