plug, stopper · pad (for a flute, saxophone) · (for closing a leak)
çekim: çoğul tampons
eş: bouchon, tape, tapon, serviette hygiénique
köken: Nasalized variant of tapon, from Frankish *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”), cognate with Dutch tappe, German Zapfen, Old English tæppa, English tap.
aile: tamponnage, tamponnade, tamponner, zone tampon
un tampon de bois
Tampons spéciaux montés sur plaques aluminium pour saxophone alto à tampons vissés.
Borrowed from French tampon, from Middle French tampion, a nasalised variant of tapon, a diminutive or augmented form of Old French tape (“plug, bung, tap”), from Frankish *tappo (“stopper, plug”), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”).