taber

See also: Taber

English

Noun

taber (plural tabers)

1. (music) Obsolete spelling of tabor

Verb

taber (third-person singular simple present tabers, present participle tabering, simple past and past participle tabered)

1. Obsolete spelling of tabor
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nahum 2:7:

     And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Antoine Galland, transl., Les mille et une nuits, translation of أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ [ʔalfu laylatin walaylatun, One Thousand and One Nights] (in Arabic); translated as anonymous translator, Arabian Night's Entertainments, 12th edition, volume 2, London: printed for T. Longman, at the Ship in Paternoster-Row, published 1767, 1706, page 122:

     It was during this interval that Humpback came half drunk before my shop, where he sung and tabered.

Anagrams

• Berat, Berta, rebat

Danish

Etymology 1

From tabe (“to lose”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtˢæːb̥ɐ]

Noun

taber c (singular definite taberen, plural indefinite tabere)

1. a loser

Declension

Declension of taber

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	taber	taberen	taber	taberne
genitive	tabers	taberens	tabers	tabernes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtˢæˀb̥ɐ], (colloquial) IPA^(key): [ˈtˢawˀɐ]

Verb

taber

1. present of tabe