tavla

See also tävla

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tāvlä, tăvlä, IPA: /teɪvlɑː/, /tævlɑː/, X-SAMPA: /teIvlA:/, /t{vlA:/
• Hyphenation: tav‧la

Etymology

From Turkish tavla, from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla (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)

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Lojban

Etymology

In Lojbanized spelling.

• Chinese: tan — 談 (谈) [tán]
• English: tak — talk
• Hindi: bakvad — बकवाद [bakavāda]
• Spanish: abl — hablar
• Russian: gavar — говорить [govoritʹ]
• Arabic: kalam

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtav.la/

Gismu

tavla (rafsi tav, ta'a)

1. talk; x₁ talks/speaks to x₂ about subject x₃ in language x₄

   mi tavla do fo la glibau

   I talk to you in English.

   le sutra tavla

   the fast talker

   lenu sutra tavla

   the fast talking

   mi sutra tavla do la lojban. la gliban.

   I talk swiftly to you about Lojban in English.

Derived terms

• belta'a
• selta'a
• terta'a
• velta'a

See also

• bacru
• casnu
• darlu
• skicu
• ciksi
• bangu

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Turkish tavla, from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla f (Cyrillic spelling тавла)

1. tavla
2. (backgammon) backgammon

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Latin tabula via German Tafel.

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
common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tavla	tavlan	tavlor	tavlorna
genitive	tavlas	tavlans	tavlors	tavlornas

Related terms

• anslagstavla
• tavelram

See also

• målning
• tabell

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Turkish

Etymology

From Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla

1. tavla
2. (backgammon) backgammon