timple
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish timple, from tiple, of uncertain etymology.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪmpəl
Noun[edit]
timple (plural timples)
- A traditional musical instrument of the Canary Islands and Murcia, having four or more commonly five strings, and similar in size to a ukulele but with a distinctive semi-round back.
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
timple m (plural timples)
- Alternative form of tiple
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → English: timple
Further reading[edit]
- “timple”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Rhymes:Spanish/imple
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- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns