gabel
English edit
Etymology edit
From French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gabel (plural gabels)
- (UK, law, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
- 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
- He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gabel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
From gabë (“lie, deception”) + -el (suffix).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gabel m (plural gabelë, definite gabeli, definite plural gabelët)
- (derogatory, vulgar) a Gypsy, Roma
Declension edit
Synonyms edit
References edit
- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “gabel”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 518
Cimbrian edit
Noun edit
gàbel
German edit
Verb edit
gabel
- inflection of gabeln:
Mòcheno edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German gabel, gabele, from Old High German gabala, from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”). Cognate with German Gabel.
Noun edit
gabel f
References edit
- “gabel” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy., p. 29