tabla

English

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tabla

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Hindustani طبلہ / तबला (tablā), from Arabic طَبْلَة (ṭabla). Cognate of Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese tambor.

Noun

tabla (plural tablas)

1. (music) A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.
   • 2013, Simon Emmerson, Living Electronic Music, page 20:

     Idealized membranes, plates and bars are clearly inadequate and give way to the reality of tablas, gongs and zanzas.

Derived terms

• tablaist

Translations

See also

• tabla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Balta, Labat, talab

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin tabula.

Noun

tabla f (plural tables)

1. table (grid of data in rows and columns)
2. table (collection of arithmetic calculations)

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

tabla

1. third-person singular past historic of tabler

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi तबला (tablā), from Arabic طَبْل (ṭabl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.bla/
• Rhymes: -abla
• Hyphenation: tà‧bla

Noun

tabla f (invariable)

1. (music) tabla

Latin

Noun

tabla f (genitive tablae); first declension (Late Latin, proscribed)

1. Syncopic form of tabula (“table”)
   • 3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 130:

     tabula non tabla

     tabula, not tabla

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

Romanian

Noun

tabla

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of tablă

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French table or Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǎːbla/
• Hyphenation: tab‧la

Noun

tábla f (Cyrillic spelling та́бла)

1. blackboard
2. board

   šahovska tabla ― chess board

Declension

Synonyms

• ploča

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindustani طبلہ / तबला (tablā), from Arabic طَبْلَة (ṭabla), from طَبْل (ṭabl, “drum”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǎːbla/
• Hyphenation: tab‧la

Noun

tábla f (Cyrillic spelling та́бла)

1. (music) tabla

Declension

References

• “tabla” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “tabla” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

tabla

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabla/
• Rhymes: -abla
• Syllabification: ta‧bla

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tabula.

Noun

tabla f (plural tablas, diminutive tablilla or tablita, augmentative tablón)

1. board, plank
2. slab

   Synonym: plancha

3. (mathematics, computing) table (grid or matrix, in a book, data base, file, document, etc.)
4. (obsolete) table (furniture)
5. (Spain) skirt pleat

   Synonym: (El Salvador) paletón

6. (in the plural) stage
7. ability on stage, ability as a public speaker

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Moroccan Arabic: طابلة (ṭābla), طبلة (ṭabla)
• → Ye'kwana: tauda

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tabla

1. inflection of tablar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tabla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tabla. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Spanish tablas as found in en tablas and quedar tablas.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /tabˈla/, (noun:tie; draw, adjective:tie;draw)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtabla/, (noun:table)
• Rhymes: (noun:tie; draw, adjective:tie;draw) -a, (noun:table) -abla
• Syllabification: tab‧la

Adjective

tablá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎ)

2. tie; draw (in games, contests, etc.)

   Synonyms: patas, empate, amanos

Derived terms

Noun

tablá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎ)

1. tie; draw (in games, contests, etc.)

   Synonyms: patas, empate, amanos

2. (wood) board; sawn board
3. lumber; timber

   Synonyms: kahoy, kalap

Derived terms

• tablasuson

Related terms

Noun

tabla or tablá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎ)

1. table; tabular arrangement

   Synonyms: talahanayan, tabulasyon, talatumbasan, manghad

See also

• talaan
• listahan