tamboura

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

1. Music A stringed musical instrument resembling a lute but lacking frets, with a small round body and a long neck, used to produce an accompaniment for singing; — called also tambur, tambour, and tampur. [Also spelled tambura.]

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors