طابور

Arabic

FWOTD – 28 May 2023

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur, “battalion”) and extended in sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tˤaː.buːr/

Noun

طَابُور • (ṭābūr) m (plural طَوَابِير (ṭawābīr))

1. line, row, file, queue, column
   • 2016 September 25, “بالصور.. وزير التعليم يحضر طابور الصباح في مدرسة كلية النصر”, in أَهْل مَصْر (ʔahl maṣr)‎^[1]:

     وطلبت مديرية المدرسة من الطلاب أثناء الطابور تحية الوزير عن طريق السباعية.

     And the school directorate demanded from the pupils in the row to greet the minister in groups of seven.

Declension

Declension of noun طَابُور (ṭābūr)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَابُور ṭābūr	الطَّابُور aṭ-ṭābūr	طَابُور ṭābūr
Nominative	طَابُورٌ ṭābūrun	الطَّابُورُ aṭ-ṭābūru	طَابُورُ ṭābūru
Accusative	طَابُورًا ṭābūran	الطَّابُورَ aṭ-ṭābūra	طَابُورَ ṭābūra
Genitive	طَابُورٍ ṭābūrin	الطَّابُورِ aṭ-ṭābūri	طَابُورِ ṭābūri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَابُورَيْن ṭābūrayn	الطَّابُورَيْن aṭ-ṭābūrayn	طَابُورَيْ ṭābūray
Nominative	طَابُورَانِ ṭābūrāni	الطَّابُورَانِ aṭ-ṭābūrāni	طَابُورَا ṭābūrā
Accusative	طَابُورَيْنِ ṭābūrayni	الطَّابُورَيْنِ aṭ-ṭābūrayni	طَابُورَيْ ṭābūray
Genitive	طَابُورَيْنِ ṭābūrayni	الطَّابُورَيْنِ aṭ-ṭābūrayni	طَابُورَيْ ṭābūray
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَوَابِير ṭawābīr	الطَّوَابِير aṭ-ṭawābīr	طَوَابِير ṭawābīr
Nominative	طَوَابِيرُ ṭawābīru	الطَّوَابِيرُ aṭ-ṭawābīru	طَوَابِيرُ ṭawābīru
Accusative	طَوَابِيرَ ṭawābīra	الطَّوَابِيرَ aṭ-ṭawābīra	طَوَابِيرَ ṭawābīra
Genitive	طَوَابِيرَ ṭawābīra	الطَّوَابِيرِ aṭ-ṭawābīri	طَوَابِيرِ ṭawābīri

References

• Procházka, Stephan (2004) “The Turkish Contribution to the Arabic Lexicon”, in Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197
• Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[2] (in German), volume 51, page 308

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Cognate with Crimean Tatar tabur (“battalion”), Chagatai [script needed] (tapkur, “fortification”), [script needed] (tabɣur, “belt, fence”).

Compare the Turkic borrowings: Czech tábor, Slovak tábor, Polish tabor, Serbo-Croatian tȃbor / та̑бор, Bulgarian табор (tabor), Old East Slavic та́бар (tábar, “Turkish camp”), Russian та́бор (tábor), dialectal та́бырь (tábyrʹ, “herd of reindeer”), Ukrainian та́бір (tábir), Hungarian tábor, Romanian tabără, English tabor. Has also been compared to Old Armenian թափօր (tʻapʻōr, “religious procession”).

Noun

طابور • (tabur)

1. (originally) A camp surrounded by carts
2. (military) battalion
3. (military) square (body of troops in a square formation)

Descendants

• Arabic: طَابُور (ṭābūr)
• Armenian: թապուր (tʻapur), թաբուռ (tʻabuṙ)
• Spanish: tabor
• Turkish: tabur

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “թապուր”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 119
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طابور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 787b
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1974, page 156a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طابور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1218
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “табор”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress, pages 6–7

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur, “battalion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tˤaː.buːr/, [tˤɑˈbuːrˤ]

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Noun

طابور • (ṭābūr) m (plural طوابير (ṭwābīr))

1. line, queue