So then I thought, look up baby names as they sometimes have the root definitions for obscure things and, sure enough, TAMBRE is there and means one who brings great joy; music. (BabyNamesPedia: What does Tambre mean?)
It's not clear due to the punctuation whether it means someone who brings great joy through music or it refers to two meanings one who brings great joy or it means music.
But (choke) the word still doesn't mean anything as the word is said to have an English origin but it doesn't. The word doesn't exist. It can't bring great joy through music because, as we've already seen, the word has nothing to do with music except as a typographical error.
That TAMBRE is listed in the Baby Names means at least one person must have used it and presumably because they thought it had a meaning. Another possibility is an extreme predilection for the combination of the sound of a hat and the sound of things that get stuck to your trousers when you walk in tall grass.
This obviously goes in circles of nothing but it's intriguing to see how wide the circle of nothing goes.
Another angle occurs. TAMBOURINE probably means little tambour. So what's a tambour and did someone bastardize that.
Well, well ...
[Middle English, from Old French, ultimately from Arabic
anb
r, stringed musical instrument; probably akin to Persian tambr, lute, from Middle Persian.] (Free Dictionary: tambour)
It's not clear due to the punctuation whether it means someone who brings great joy through music or it refers to two meanings one who brings great joy or it means music.
But (choke) the word still doesn't mean anything as the word is said to have an English origin but it doesn't. The word doesn't exist. It can't bring great joy through music because, as we've already seen, the word has nothing to do with music except as a typographical error.
That TAMBRE is listed in the Baby Names means at least one person must have used it and presumably because they thought it had a meaning. Another possibility is an extreme predilection for the combination of the sound of a hat and the sound of things that get stuck to your trousers when you walk in tall grass.
This obviously goes in circles of nothing but it's intriguing to see how wide the circle of nothing goes.
Another angle occurs. TAMBOURINE probably means little tambour. So what's a tambour and did someone bastardize that.
Well, well ...
[Middle English, from Old French, ultimately from Arabic
anbr, stringed musical instrument; probably akin to Persian tambr, lute, from Middle Persian.] (Free Dictionary: tambour)
That's some thin progress toward making sense of the baby name based on yet another typo but it still isn't defining some grand characteristic of music on the level of a note's timbre.
TAMBRE remains a musical non-player.
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