tabor

• Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)

Middle English, from Old French tabour, ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور‎ (ṭunbūr).

tabor (plural tabors)

1. A small drum.
   1. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
   • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, ch 4:

     Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […]

• taborist
• taborer

tabor (third-person singular simple present tabors, present participle taboring, simple past and past participle tabored)

1. (transitive) To make (a sound) with a tabor.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.

From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور‎ (tabur).

tabor (plural tabors)

1. A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 269:

     A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.

• Barot, Barto, Bator, ORBAT, Tobar, Torba, abort, boart, rabot

Cognate with Ottoman Turkish طابور‎.

tabor (definite accusative taboru, plural taborlar)

1. (military) battalion

   Synonym: batalyon

• “tabor” in Obastan.com.

From Arabic طُنْبُور‎ (ṭunbūr) or Persian طبل‎ (“drum”), related to Armenian տաւիղ (tawił), English tabla and tambour.

tabor m (oblique plural tabors, nominative singular tabors, nominative plural tabor)

1. tambour (drum)

Borrowed from Czech Tábor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.bɔr/

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• Rhymes: -abɔr
• Syllabification: ta‧bor

tabor m inan (diminutive taborek)

1. (singular only) vehicle fleet
2. (singular only) rolling stock
3. (historical) a nomadic group of Gypsies

   Synonym: szatra

4. (historical, military) wagon fort

• tabor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tabor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Hungarian tábor, from Ottoman Turkish طابور‎ (tabur).

tȃbor m (Cyrillic spelling та̑бор)

1. camp

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• IPA^(key): /taˈboɾ/ [t̪aˈβ̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ta‧bor

tabor m (plural tabores)

1. (military) a small battalion

• “tabor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014