tympanum

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Noun

 * 1)  A drum.
 * 2)  Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
 * 3)  The eardrum (tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica).
 * 4)  The main portion of the middle ear: the tympanic cavity (cavitas tympani).
 * 5)  A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.
 * 6)  A membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ in frogs and toads.
 * 7)   The labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.
 * 8)  A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated
 * 9) The recessed triangular space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch
 * 10)  A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged; used for raising water, as for irrigation.
 * 1)  A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged; used for raising water, as for irrigation.

Translations

 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Arabic: قَلْب القَوْصَرَة
 * Azerbaijani: təmpanum, timpan
 * Belarusian: тымпан
 * Bengali: মধ্যকর্ণ
 * Bulgarian: тимпан
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: tympanon
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, tympaani
 * German: Tympanum
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תוֹף הַאוֹזֶן
 * Hindi: कान का पर्दा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: gaflflötur
 * Italian:
 * Kannada: ಟೈಂಪಾನಮ್
 * Kazakh: тимпанум
 * Korean:
 * Luxembourgish: Tympanum
 * Macedonian: тимпан
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai: หูตอนใน
 * Turkish:
 * Uzbek: timpanum
 * Vietnamese: chứng màng nhĩ
 * Yiddish: טימפּאַנום

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  drum, timbrel, tambour, tambourine
 * 2)  timbrel as a figure of something effeminate or enervating
 * 3) drum or wheel in machines for raising weights, in water organs, etc.
 * 4) triangular area of a pediment
 * 5) panel of a door
 * 6) part of the clepsydra
 * 1) panel of a door
 * 2) part of the clepsydra

Descendants
Note: see for later re-borrowings from Byzantine.