cimbalom

 

• cymbalom
• cymbalum
• zimbalon
• zimbaloon

From Hungarian cimbalom. Doublet of cymbal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪmbələm/

cimbalom (plural cimbaloms)

1. A type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Central and Eastern Europe.
   • 2007 September 17, Bernard Holland, “Cryptic Messages or Silence From the ’60s Avant-Garde”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Either/Or, including Anthony Burr, clarinetist; Jane Rigler, flutist; and Richard Carrick and David Shively, percussionists, also employed the cimbalom, the Hungarian pianolike mutant whose twang remains familiar to boozy evenings in late-night Central European bars.

•   cimbalom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

 

 cimbalom on Hungarian Wikipedia

 

Borrowed from Latin cymbalum (“cymbal”), from Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kúmbalon). First attested after 1416.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡simbɒlom]
• Hyphenation: cim‧ba‧lom
• Rhymes: -om

cimbalom (plural cimbalmok)

1. (music) cimbalom (a type of concert-hammered dulcimer)

• cimbalom in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• cimbalom in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).