طابور

Etymology

Cognate with Crimean Tatar tabur (“battalion”), Chagatai [script needed] (tapkur, “fortification”), [script needed] (tabɣur, “belt, fence”).

Compare the Turkic borrowings: Czech tábor, Slovak tábor, Polish tabor, Serbo-Croatian tȃbor / та̑бор, Bulgarian табор (tabor), Old East Slavic та́бар (tábar, “Turkish camp”), Russian та́бор (tábor), dialectal та́бырь (tábyrʹ, “herd of reindeer”), Ukrainian та́бір (tábir), Hungarian tábor, Romanian tabără, English tabor. Has also been compared to Old Armenian թափօր (tʿapʿōr, “religious procession”).

Noun

طابور • (tabur)

1. (military) battalion

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), “թապուր”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The Influence of Turkish on Armenian and Words Borrowed from Turkish in the Popular Armenian Language of Constantinople in Comparison with the Dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow, Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 119
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طابور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 787b
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1974, page 156a
• Vasmer, Max (1973), “табор”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress, pages 6–7