atavaque

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic الطَّبَق (aṭ-ṭabaq, “plate”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ataˈβake/
    • Rhymes: -ake
    • Hyphenation: a‧ta‧va‧que

    Noun

    *atavaque m (plural atavaques)

    1. (music, hapax legomenon) kettledrum
      Synonym: atabal
      • c. 1344, Pedro Afonso, Count of Barcelos, “Dos gozmaães e ponços”, in Livro de Linhagens do Conde D. Pedro, volume 3; republished as Portugaliae Monumenta Historica (Scriptores; I), Lisbon: Typis Academicis, 1860, page 187:
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        [E os gritos deles e das trombas e anafiis e daltancaros e atauaques e gaitas asi reteniam que parecia que as montanhas se areygauam de todas partes.]
        And the cry of them and their buisines and trumpets and frame drums and kettledrums and fifes would resound in a way that the mountains seemed to tremble as a whole.

    Usage notes

    • Only attested in the plural.

    Descendants

    • Portuguese: atabaque
      • → English: atabaque
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