tabor
English
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illustration by Praetorius
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪbə(r)
Etymology 1
Middle English, from Old French tabour, ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr).
Noun
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.
Translations
Verb
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
From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).
Noun
tabor (plural tabors)
- A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 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.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 269:
Old French
Polish
Etymology
From a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈta.bɔr/
Noun
tabor m inan
- (singular only) vehicle fleet
- (singular only) rolling stock
- (historical) nomadic group of Gypsies
- (historical) wagon fort
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Hungarian tábor, from Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).
Declension
Declension of tabor
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | tabor | tabori |
genitive | tabora | tabora |
dative | taboru | taborima |
accusative | tabor | tabore |
vocative | tabore | tabori |
locative | taboru | taborima |
instrumental | taborom | taborima |
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