طبله

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • تابله (tabla)

Etymology

From Italian tavola (table; board, plank), itself from Latin tabula (tablet).

Noun

طبله • (tabla)

  1. circular tray, usually made of wood
  2. flat side of a block-sheave
  3. head of a capstan
  4. flat disk, cap, truck
  5. flat circular expansion

Descendants

  • Turkish: tavla
  • Serbo-Croatian: та̀вла

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طبله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 800
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طبله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, columns 3087–3088
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طبله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1233

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طبله (tabla, circular tray)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? tabla
Dari reading? tabla
Iranian reading? table
Tajik reading? tabla
Dari طبله
Iranian Persian
Tajik табла

Noun

طبله • (table) (plural طبله‌ها (table-hâ))

  1. round tray
  2. little drum

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