tambour in English:

She can play the drum.

I hear the drum.

Tom beat the drum at a slow tempo.

Meg is beating a drum.

They had been thumping the drum all along.

Tom has been beating the drum for the project.

They usually drum their fingers at red lights.

A bass drum, a snare drum, and cymbals were once all a composer needed to make a work sound exotic.

What police thought was a distressed cat turned out to be a man practicing the cuica, a drum which produces noise by rubbing a stick attached to the drumhead from the inside.

The drum faded away.