tavla

See also: tävla

English

Etymology

From Turkish tavla, from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula. Doublet of table.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tāvlä, tăvlä, IPA(key): /teɪvlɑː/, /tævlɑː/
  • Hyphenation: tav‧la

Noun

tavla (usually uncountable, plural tavlas)

  1. (backgammon) A version of the board game backgammon played widely in Turkey and other countries of the region.
    • 1978, Past the tavern and hear the joggle of tavlas Lawrence Durrell, in a 1977 interview published in Listener, 1978, and reprinted in Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, 1998 (see p.174)

Anagrams


Italiot Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla f

  1. (Italiot Dialect) table

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

tavla f

  1. definite feminine singular of tavle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tavla f

  1. definite singular of tavle

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (compare Turkish tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla f (Cyrillic spelling тавла)

  1. tavla
  2. (backgammon, regional) backgammon

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin tabula via German Tafel.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

tavla c

  1. (art) a painting; piece of painted canvas
  2. a picture hanging on a wall
  3. a hard, flat surface for writing or drawing, for example a blackboard (svarta tavlan) or whiteboard
  4. a tablet
  5. (colloquial) A glaring mistake, a blunder

Declension

Declension of tavla 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tavla tavlan tavlor tavlorna
Genitive tavlas tavlans tavlors tavlornas

Descendants

See also


Turkish

Etymology

From Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla

  1. tavla
  2. (backgammon) backgammon
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