tavla

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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 tavlasLawrence Durrell, in a 1977 interview published in Listener, 1978, and reprinted in Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, 1998 (see p.174)

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Italiot Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla f

  1. table

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian tàvula. Doublet of tavola.

Pronunciation

Noun

tavla f (plural twavel, paucal tavliet)

  1. plank, board
  2. draughts, checkers

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

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طاوله (tavla), تاوله (tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tàvla f (Cyrillic spelling та̀вла)

  1. tavla
  2. (backgammon, regional) backgammon
    Synonym: triktrȁk

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin tabula via German Tafel.

Pronunciation

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

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Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طبله (tabla), تاوله (tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula. Doublet of tablo.

Noun

tavla (definite accusative tavlayı, plural tavlalar)

  1. tavla
  2. (backgammon) backgammon

Inflection

Inflection
Nominative tavla
Definite accusative tavlayı
Singular Plural
Nominative tavla tavlalar
Definite accusative tavlayı tavlaları
Dative tavlaya tavlalara
Locative tavlada tavlalarda
Ablative tavladan tavlalardan
Genitive tavlanın tavlaların