timbale

From French timbale.

timbale (plural timbales)

1. A drum-shaped mould used to cook food.
2. A dish of food cooked in such a mould.

   Synonyms: timpano, timballo

   1. A dish of poultry or fish pounded and mixed with egg white, cream, etc., poured into a mould.

• bimetal, limbate

Alteration of tamballe (as though formed from cimbale + timbre), from Old Occitan tambala, from Arabic طَبْل (ṭabl).

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃.bal/

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timbale f (plural timbales)

1. (music) kettledrum; timpani
2. (metal) cup, goblet
3. (cooking) timbale (mould)

• → Portuguese: timbale

• “timbale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French timbale.

• Hyphenation: tim‧ba‧le

timbale m (plural timbales)

1. (music) kettledrum
2. (cooking) timbale (mould)