eardrum; tympanum (membrane that separates the outer ear from the middle ear) · kettledrum (large drum with a tunable drumhead) · tympanum (space between the sides of a pediment)
çekim: çoğul tímpanos
köken: Borrowed from Latin tympanum (“drum”), from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon, “drum”). Doublet of timbre.
köken: màng + nhĩ. The second element is from Chinese 耳 (“ear”), making this a rather unusual formation given how nhĩ is not normally used as a full-fledged morpheme in conjunction with non-Sino-Vietnamese ones. Probably a calque of Chinese 耳膜 (nhĩ mạc). Compare lồi xỉ for another case with similar formation.