Kurdish tanbur (Kurdish: tembûr ته‌مبوور‎) or tanbour (Persian: تنبور‎‎), a fretted string instrument, is an initial and main form of the tanbūr instrument family, original of and unique to the Kurdish people.It is highly associated with the Yarsan (Ahl-e Haqq) religion in Kurdish areas and in the Lorestān provinces of Iran. It is currently one of the only musical instrument used in Ahl-e Haqq rituals, and practitioners venerate the tembûr as a sacred object.