The musical instrument that is most often translated as «cymbals» in English is translated in the following ways:

• Laarim: «jingles» (source: Laarim Back Translation)
• Uma: «drum» (source: Uma Back Translation)
• Yakan: «tin» (source: Yakan Back Translation)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: «bamboo clapper» (source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
• Tagbanwa: «percussion-instrument» (source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
• Bariai: «rattling decoration» (source: Bariai Back Translation)
• Kupsabiny: «drum sticks» (source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Paicî: «cooking pot lid» (in 1 Cor. 13:1) (Source: Ian Flaws)
• Natügu: «smacking things» and «banging things» (in Psalm 150:5) (source: Brenda Boerger in Open Theology 2016, p. 179ff. )

In the UBS Helps for Translators‘ Human-made Things in the Bible (original title: The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible) it says the following:

Description: Cymbals were a percussion instrument consisting of two metal discs that were struck together in order to make a shrill, clashing sound. There were two types of cymbals: (1) flat metal plates that were struck together, and (2) metal cones, one of which was brought down on top of the other, on the open end.

Translation: The equivalent of “cymbal” in many languages is a phrase such as “loud metal.”

Cymbals (source: Susan Mitford (c) British and Foreign Bible Society 1986)

Quoted with permission.

See also clanging cymbal.