'Tambourine' is Arabic/Persian for a stringed instrument — the word shifted from strings to percussion.
A small hand-held drum with metal jingles set into its frame, played by shaking, striking, or rubbing the drumhead.
From French 'tambourin' (a small drum, a tabor), diminutive of 'tambour' (a drum), from Arabic 'ṭunbūr' or Persian 'tanbūr' (a stringed instrument, a long-necked lute), possibly ultimately from Sumerian or another ancient Near Eastern language. The semantic shift from stringed instrument (in Arabic/Persian) to drum (in French) occurred during transmission through medieval Iberian Arabic, where the word became associated with percussion instruments more generally. The English '-ine' ending further
The word 'tambourine' has undergone one of the strangest semantic shifts in musical vocabulary: it began as the name of a stringed instrument (the Persian tanbūr, a long-necked lute) and ended up as the name of a drum with jingles — switching entirely from strings to percussion as it crossed languages.