tabor
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
Middle English, from Old French tabour, ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr).
Noun edit
tabor (plural tabors)
- A small drum.
- In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
- Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […]
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Verb edit
tabor (third-person singular simple present tabors, present participle taboring, simple past and past participle tabored)
- (transitive) To make (a sound) with a tabor.
- To strike lightly and frequently.
Etymology 2 edit
From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).
Noun edit
tabor (plural tabors)
- A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 269:
- A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.
Anagrams edit
Azerbaijani edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Ottoman Turkish طابور.
Noun edit
tabor (definite accusative taboru, plural taborlar)
Declension edit
Declension of tabor | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | tabor |
taborlar | ||||||
definite accusative | taboru |
taborları | ||||||
dative | tabora |
taborlara | ||||||
locative | taborda |
taborlarda | ||||||
ablative | tabordan |
taborlardan | ||||||
definite genitive | taborun |
taborların |
Further reading edit
- “tabor” in Obastan.com.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr) or Persian طبل (“drum”), related to Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), English tabla and tambour.
Noun edit
tabor oblique singular, m (oblique plural tabors, nominative singular tabors, nominative plural tabor)
- tambour (drum)
Polish edit
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Noun edit
tabor m inan (diminutive taborek)
- (singular only) vehicle fleet
- (singular only) rolling stock
- (historical) a nomadic group of Gypsies
- Synonym: szatra
- (historical, military) wagon fort
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Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
From Hungarian tábor, from Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).
Noun edit
tȃbor m (Cyrillic spelling та̑бор)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tabor m (plural tabores)
Further reading edit
- “tabor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014