tavla

See also: tävla

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: tāvlä, tăvlä, IPA^(key): /teɪvlɑː/, /tævlɑː/
• Hyphenation: tav‧la

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

Anagrams

• talav

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Italiot Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla f

1. (Italiot Dialect) table

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tavlen m

Noun

tavla f

1. definite feminine singular of tavle

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tavla f

1. definite singular of tavle

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (compare Turkish tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla f (Cyrillic spelling тавла)

1. tavla
2. (backgammon, regional) backgammon

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Swedish

Etymology

From Latin tabula via German Tafel.

Pronunciation

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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
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tavla	tavlan	tavlor	tavlorna
Genitive	tavlas	tavlans	tavlors	tavlornas

Related terms

• anslagstavla
• piltavla
• tavelram

Descendants

• → Finnish: taulu

See also

• målning
• tabell

Anagrams

• avtal

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Turkish

Etymology

From Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla

1. tavla
2. (backgammon) backgammon