See also: Gabel

English

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Etymology

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From French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (tribute).

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gabel (plural gabels)

  1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From gabë (lie, deception) +‎ -el (suffix).[1]

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gabel m (plural gabelë, definite gabeli, definite plural gabelët)

  1. (derogatory, vulgar) a Gypsy, Roma

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  1. ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “gabel”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 518

Cimbrian

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gàbel

  1. plural of gabala
  2. dative singular of gabala

German

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Verb

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gabel

  1. inflection of gabeln:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative

Mòcheno

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Etymology

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From Middle High German gabel, gabele, from Old High German gabala, from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (fork). Cognate with German Gabel.

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gabel f

  1. fork

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