tambourine vs tympan

tambourine and tympan both are nouns.

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

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

tambourine: a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides
tympan: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

Other hypernyms of tambourine include drum, membranophone.

tambourine (noun)	tympan (noun)
a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides	a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end