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tobă
drum (the musical percussion instrument) /ˈto.bə/
noun#4845 most common
Also: bass drum, kettledrum
Example sentences
Copilul bate toba.
The child beats the drum.
Tobele sunt foarte zgomotoase.
The drums are very noisy.
Toboșarul cântă la tobă în fiecare seară.
The drummer plays the drum every evening.
Vecinul meu e tobă de carte, știe răspuns la orice întrebare.
My neighbor is extremely well-read, he knows the answer to every question.
Autobuzul de dimineață era plin tobă de călători.
The morning bus was packed full of passengers.
Toba mare din fanfară se auzea până la capătul satului, bătută ritmic de toboșarul octogenar.
The big drum from the brass band could be heard all the way to the end of the village, beaten rhythmically by the octogenarian drummer.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tobă | tobe |
| Genitive | tobei | tobelor |
| Accusative | tobă | tobe |
| Vocative | tobă | tobe |
Word family
toboșardrummer
tobedrums (plural)
a bate tobato spread news loudly and publicly, literally "to beat the drum"
tobă de carteidiom for an extremely learned or well-read person
plin tobăidiom for packed completely full, as tight as a drumhead
Etymology
The origin of "tobă" is not settled among Romanian etymologists. Some dictionaries mark it as a word of obscure or pre-Latin origin, distinct from the Latin-derived core of Romanian vocabulary. Because the source is disputed, no reliable Indo-European root or foreign cognate can be stated with confidence.
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