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See also: Tablă, tablă, and tábla

English

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The tabla

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.

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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)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tabula tabulae
genitive tabulae tabulārum
dative tabulae tabulīs
accusative tabulam tabulās
ablative tabulā tabulīs
vocative tabula tabulae

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 tablachess board
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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
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References

  • tabla”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • tabla”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Spanish

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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
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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

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tabla, from Latin tabula. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Spanish tablas as found in en tablas and quedar tablas. Doublet of teybol.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /tabˈla/ (tied, drawn (in games), adjective; tie, draw (in games); wooden board; lumber, noun)
      • Rhymes: -a
    • IPA(key): /ˈtabla/ , /tabˈla/ (table, noun)
  • Syllabification: tab‧la

Adjective

tablá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎ)

  1. tied; drawn (in games, contests, etc.)
    Synonyms: patas, empate, amanos

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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

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Noun

tabla or tablá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎ)

  1. table; tabular arrangement
    Synonyms: talahanayan, tabulasyon, talatumbasan, manghad

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