tabla

From Hindustani طبلہ / तबला (tablā), from Arabic طَبْلَة (ṭabla). Cognate of Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese tambor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑblə/, /ˈtʌblə/

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tabla (plural tablas)

1. (music) A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.
   • 2013, Simon Emmerson, Living Electronic Music, page 20:

     Idealized membranes, plates and bars are clearly inadequate and give way to the reality of tablas, gongs and zanzas.

• tablaist

• tabla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Balta, Labat, talab

From Latin tabula.

tabla f (plural tables)

1. table (grid of data in rows and columns)
2. table (collection of arithmetic calculations)

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tabla

1. third-person singular past historic of tabler

Borrowed from Hindi तबला (tablā), from Arabic طَبْل (ṭabl).

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.bla/
• Rhymes: -abla
• Hyphenation: tà‧bla

tabla f (invariable)

1. (music) tabla

tabla f (genitive tablae); first declension (Late Latin, proscribed)

1. syncopic form of tabula (“table”)
   • [3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 130:

     tabula non tabla

     (The correct form is) tabula, not tabla]

First-declension noun.

• Hyphenation: ta‧bla

Borrowed from Spanish tabla, from Latin tabula.

tabla f (plural tablas)

1. metal plate; sheet metal

Borrowed from Hindi तबला (tablā), from Arabic طَبْل (ṭabl).

tabla f (plural tablas)

1. (music) tabla

• “tabla”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

tabla

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of tablă

Borrowed from French table or Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

• IPA^(key): /tǎːbla/
• Hyphenation: tab‧la

tábla f (Cyrillic spelling та́бла)

1. blackboard
2. board

   šahovska tabla ― chess board

• ploča

Borrowed from Hindustani طبلہ / तबला (tablā), from Arabic طَبْلَة (ṭabla), from طَبْل (ṭabl, “drum”).

• IPA^(key): /tǎːbla/
• Hyphenation: tab‧la

tábla f (Cyrillic spelling та́бла)

1. (music) tabla

• “tabla”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “tabla”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabla/ [ˈt̪a.β̞la]
• Rhymes: -abla
• Syllabification: ta‧bla

Inherited from Latin tabula.

tabla f (plural tablas, diminutive tablilla or tablita, augmentative tablón)

1. board, plank
2. slab

   Synonym: plancha

3. (mathematics, computing) table (grid or matrix, in a book, data base, file, document, etc.)
4. (obsolete) table (furniture)
5. (Spain) skirt pleat

   Synonym: (El Salvador) paletón

6. (in the plural) stage
7. ability on stage, ability as a public speaker

• → Moroccan Arabic: طابلة (ṭābla), طبلة (ṭabla)
• → Tagalog: tabla
• → Ye'kwana: tauda

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tabla

1. inflection of tablar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tabla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish tabla, from Latin tabula. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Spanish tablas as found in en tablas and quedar tablas. Doublet of teybol.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /tabˈla/ [t̪ɐbˈla] (“tied, drawn (in games)”, adjective; “tie, draw (in games); wooden board; lumber”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -a
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtabla/ [ˈt̪ab.lɐ], /tabˈla/ [t̪ɐbˈla] (“table”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -abla, -a
• Syllabification: tab‧la

tablá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎ)

2. tied; drawn (in games, contests, etc.)

   Synonyms: patas, empate, amanos

• → Tausug: tabla

tablá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎ)

1. tie; draw (in games, contests, etc.)

   Synonyms: patas, empate, amanos

2. (wood) board; sawn board
3. lumber; timber

   Synonyms: kahoy, kalap

• tablasuson

tabla or tablá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎ)

1. table; tabular arrangement

   Synonyms: talahanayan, tabulasyon, talatumbasan, manghad

• talaan
• listahan

• balat, tabal, talab

Borrowed from Tagalog tabla (“draw; tie”), from Spanish tablas (“draw”) as found in en tablas and quedar tablas.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /tabla/ [t̪abˈla]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tab‧la

tabla (Sulat Sūg spelling تَبْلَ) (Philippines)

1. even; equal; tie; draw (as in a game or contest)

   Tabla sila ha pagkuntis magkalang.

   They are tied in the singing contest.