tabour vs tympan

tabour and tympan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tabour	Yes	No	No	No
tympan	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tympan is a hypernym of tabour; that is, tympan is a word with a broader meaning than tabour:

tabour: a small drum with one head of soft calfskin
tympan: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

Other hypernyms of tabour include drum, membranophone.

tabour (noun)	tympan (noun)
a small drum with one head of soft calfskin	a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end