tabor

See also: tábor, Tábor, and Tabor

English

illustration by Praetorius

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪbə(r)

Etymology 1

Middle English, from Old French tabour, ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr).

Noun

tabor (plural tabors)

1. A small drum.
   1. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.

Derived terms

• taborist
• taborer

Translations

small drum

• Catalan: tabalet (ca) m
• French: tambour (fr)
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• Russian: ма́ленький бараба́н m (málenʹkij barabán)
• Spanish: tamboril (es) m

Verb

tabor (third-person singular simple present tabors, present participle taboring, simple past and past participle tabored)

1. (transitive) To make (a sound) with a tabor.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.

Etymology 2

From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).

Noun

tabor (plural tabors)

1. A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 269:

     A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.

Anagrams

• Barot, Barto, Bator, ORBAT, Tobar, Torba, abort, boart, rabot

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Old French

Etymology

From Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr) or Persian طبل (“drum”), related to Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), English tabla and tambour.

Noun

tabor oblique singular, m (oblique plural tabors, nominative singular tabors, nominative plural tabor)

1. tambour (drum)

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Polish

Etymology

From a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.bɔr/

Noun

tabor m inan

1. (singular only) vehicle fleet
2. (singular only) rolling stock
3. (historical) nomadic group of Gypsies
4. (historical) wagon fort

Declension

Declension of tabor

	singular	plural
nominative	tabor	tabory
genitive	taboru	taborów
dative	taborowi	taborom
accusative	tabor	tabory
instrumental	taborem	taborami
locative	taborze	taborach
vocative	taborze	tabory

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Hungarian tábor, from Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).

Noun

tȃbor m (Cyrillic spelling та̑бор)

1. camp

Declension

Declension of tabor

	singular	plural
nominative	tabor	tabori
genitive	tabora	tabora
dative	taboru	taborima
accusative	tabor	tabore
vocative	tabore	tabori
locative	taboru	taborima
instrumental	taborom	taborima