tabor

See also: tábor, Tábor, and Tabor

English

illustration by Praetorius

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪbə(r)

Etymology 1

From Old French tabour.

Noun

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.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Anagrams

Old French

Noun

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

  1. tambour (drum)

Polish

Etymology

From a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور‎ (tabur).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.bɔr/

Noun

tabor m inan

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

Declension

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Noun

tȃbor m (Cyrillic spelling та̑бор)

  1. camp

Declension

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