tavla

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

• enPR: tāvlä, tăvlä, IPA^(key): /teɪvlɑː/, /tævlɑː/

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• Hyphenation: tav‧la

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)

• lavta, talav

Borrowed from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

tavla f

1. table

Borrowed from Sicilian tàvula. Doublet of tavola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːv.la/

tavla f (plural twavel, paucal tavliet)

1. plank, board
2. draughts, checkers

• tavlen m

tavla f

1. definite feminine singular of tavle

tavla f

1. definite singular of tavle

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طاوله (tavla), تاوله (tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

tàvla f (Cyrillic spelling та̀вла)

1. tavla
2. (backgammon, regional) backgammon

   Synonym: triktrȁk

From Latin tabula via German Tafel.

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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

• anslagstavla
• piltavla
• tavelram
• urtavla

• målning
• tabell

• avlat, avtal

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طبله (tabla), تاوله (tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula. Doublet of tablo.

tavla (definite accusative tavlayı, plural tavlalar)

1. tavla
2. (backgammon) backgammon