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Meaning
noun a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
originFrom Portuguese marimba, via a Bantu source, perhaps Kimbundu marimba (“xylophone”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0