djembe

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large, rope-tuned, skin-covered drum played with the bare hands, used in West African and some fusion music.
    — There are three principal types of traditional drums in Guinean Sousou culture: the djembe, the dundun, and the tama. The djembe is a single-headed goblet-shaped drum with a relatively high-pitched tone.

词形变化

djembes plural djembé alternative jembe alternative jenbe alternative djimbe alternative jimbe alternative dyinbe alternative

词源

From French djembé, from Mandinka jembe which derives from the Bambara language, "djé" is the verb for "gather" and "bé" translates as "peace." As a result, "Anke djé, anke bé" which translates to "everyone gather together in peace" and defines the drum's purpose.
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