طبله
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- تابله (tabla)
Etymology
From Italian tavola (“table; board, plank”), itself from Latin tabula (“tablet”).
Noun
طبله • (tabla)
- circular tray, usually made of wood
- flat side of a block-sheave
- head of a capstan
- flat disk, cap, truck
- flat circular expansion
Descendants
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
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /tab.ˈla/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰäb.lä]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰæb.le]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰäb.lä]
| 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))
- round tray
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 283:
- طبلهها بشکست و جانها ریختند
نیک و بد در همدگر آمیختند- tabla-hā bi-šikast u jān-hā rēxtand
nēk u bad dar hamdigar āmēxtand - The trays were broken and the souls were spilled:
good and evil ones were mingled with each other.
- tabla-hā bi-šikast u jān-hā rēxtand
- little drum
References
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “طبله”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim