tabla

See also: tábla

English

The tabla

Etymology

From Hindi 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

an Indian drum

• Armenian: տաբլա (tabla)
• Assamese: তবলা (tobola)
• Bengali: তবলা (tobola)
• Bihari: तबला
• Bulgarian: табла (bg) f (tabla)
• Catalan: tabla (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔布拉鼓 (tǎbùlāgǔ)

• Dutch: tabla (nl) m or f
• French: tabla (fr) m
• German: Tabla m or f
• Gujarati: તબલા m (tablā)
• Hebrew: טַאבְּלָה (tabla)
• Hindi: तबला (hi) m (tablā)
• Hungarian: tablá
• Italian: tabla f
• Japanese: タブラ (tabura)
• Kannada: ತಬಲಾ (tabalā)
• Korean: 타블라 (tabeulla)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malayalam: തബല (ml) (tabala)
• Marathi: तबला m (tablā)
• Nepali: तबला (tablā)
• Oriya: ତବଲା (or) (tôbôla)
• Pashto: طبله (ps)
• Persian: طبله (fa)
• Punjabi: ਤਬਲਾ m (tablā)
• Russian: та́бла (ru) f (tábla)
• Sanskrit: तबला m (tabalā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: та́бла f

  Roman: tábla (sh) f

• Sicilian: tabbella f
• Sinhalese: තබ්ලාව (tablāwa)
• Spanish: tabla (es) m
• Tamil: தபலா (tapalā)
• Telugu: తబలా (te) (tabalā)
• Ukrainian: та́бла f (tábla)
• Urdu: طبلہ m (tablā)

See also

• tabla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Balta, Labat, talab

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Asturian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tabula.

Noun

tabla f (plural tables)

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

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French

Verb

tabla

1. third-person singular past historic of tabler

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tabla f (uncountable)

1. (music) tabla

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Latin

Etymology

From tabula, which underwent syncope. This term is attested in the Appendix Probi, a compilation of common mistakes written in the Late Antiquity.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.bla/, [ˈt̪äbɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.bla/, [ˈt̪äːblä]

Noun

tabla f (genitive tablae); first declension

1. (Vulgar Latin, proscribed) Alternative form of tabula ("tablet").
   • 3rd–4th century C.E., Appendix Probi:

     tabula non tabla

     [Use] tabula, not tabla.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tabla	tablae
Genitive	tablae	tablārum
Dative	tablae	tablīs
Accusative	tablam	tablās
Ablative	tablā	tablīs
Vocative	tabla	tablae

First declension.

Italo-Western declension of tabla
Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	*tábla	*táblę
genitive	*táblę	*tablárọ
dative	*táblę	*táblis
accusative-ablative	*táblã	*táblas

Eastern declension of tabla
Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	*tábla	*táblę
genitive	*táblę	*tabláru
dative	*táblę	*táblis
accusative-ablative	*táblã	*táblas

Sardinian declension of tabla
Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	*tábla	*táblę
genitive	*táblę	*tabláru
dative	*táblę	*táblis
accusative-ablative	*táblã	*táblas

Descendants

• Asturian: tabla
• Basque: taula
• Bulgarian: та́бла (tábla)
• Catalan: taula
• Danish: tavle
• Dutch: tabel, tablet, tafel
• English: table
• French: table
• Friulian: taule
• Galician: táboa
• German: Tafel
• Hebrew: טבלה (tavla)
• Hunsrik: Daafel
• Occitan: taula

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tavle

  Nynorsk: tavle

• Old Norse: tafl
• Portuguese: tala, tábua
• Romanian: tablă
• Russian: та́бель (tábelʹ), табли́ца (tablíca)
• Sardinian: taba
• Serbo-Croatian: табла / tabla, тавла / tavla
• Sicilian: tàula
• Spanish: tabla
• Swedish: tavla
• Turkish: tablo, tavla
• Venetian: toła, tola, tòla

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French table or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian tavola, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tabula.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tábla f (Cyrillic spelling та́бла)

1. blackboard
2. board

   šahovska tabla

Declension

Declension of tabla

	singular	plural
nominative	tabla	table
genitive	table	tabla / tabli
dative	tabli	tablama
accusative	tablu	table
vocative	tablo	table
locative	tabli	tablama
instrumental	tablom	tablama

Synonyms

• ploča

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hindi, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic طَبْلَة (ṭabla), طَبْل (ṭabl, “drum”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tábla f (Cyrillic spelling та́бла)

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Declension

Declension of tabla

	singular	plural
nominative	tabla	table
genitive	table	tabla / tabli
dative	tabli	tablama
accusative	tablu	table
vocative	tablo	table
locative	tabli	tablama
instrumental	tablom	tablama

References

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tabula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabla/ [ˈt̪a.β̞la]

Noun

tabla f (plural tablas)

1. board, plank
2. slab
3. table (grid or matrix, in a book)
4. (obsolete) table (furniture)
5. (Spain) skirt pleat
6. (in the plural) stage
7. ability on stage, ability as a public speaker

Synonyms

• (slab): plancha
• (skirt pleat): paletón (El Salvador)

Derived terms

(diminutive tablilla or tablita) (augmentative tablón)

• en tablas
• entablar
• escaparse en una tabla
• tabla de periódica
• tabla de salvación
• tabla de snow
• tabla de surf
• tablas reales
• tablero
• tableta
• tablón

 

Related terms

• tabulación
• tabulador
• tabular