tabla

See also: tábla

English

The tabla

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• tablaist

Translations

an Indian drum

• Armenian: տաբլա (tabla)
• Assamese: তবলা (tobola)
• Bengali: তবলা (bn) (tobola)
• Bihari: तबला
• Bulgarian: табла (bg) f (tabla)
• Catalan: tabla (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔布拉鼓 (tǎbùlāgǔ)

• Dutch: tabla (nl) m or f
• French: tabla (fr) m
• German: Tabla (de) m or f
• Gujarati: તબલા m (tablā)
• Hebrew: טַאבְּלָה (tabla)
• Hindi: तबला (hi) m (tablā)
• Hungarian: tablá
• Italian: tabla f
• Japanese: タブラ (tabura)
• Kannada: ತಬಲಾ (tabalā)
• Korean: 타블라 (tabeulla)
• Malayalam: തബല (ml) (tabala)
• Marathi: तबला m (tablā)
• Nepali: तबला (tablā)
• Odia: ତବଲା (or) (tabalā)
• Pashto: طبله (ps)
• Persian: طبله (fa)
• Punjabi: ਤਬਲਾ m (tablā)
• Russian: та́бла (ru) f (tábla)
• Sanskrit: तबला m (tabalā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: та́бла f

  Roman: tábla (sh) f

• Sicilian: tabbella f
• Sinhalese: තබ්ලාව (tablāwa)
• Spanish: tabla (es) m
• Tamil: தபலா (tapalā)
• Telugu: తబలా (te) (tabalā)
• Ukrainian: та́бла f (tábla)
• Urdu: طبلہ m (tablā)

See also

• tabla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Balta, Labat, talab

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin tabula.

Noun

tabla f (plural tables)

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

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

tabla

1. third-person singular past historic of tabler

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tabla f (invariable)

1. (music) tabla

Latin

Noun

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]

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tabula	tabulae
genitive	tabulae	tabulārum
dative	tabulae	tabulīs
accusative	tabulam	tabulās
ablative	tabulā	tabulīs
vocative	tabula	tabulae

Descendants

• Asturian: tabla
• → Basque: taula
• → Bulgarian: та́бла (tábla)
• Catalan: taula
• → Danish: tavle
• → Dutch: tabel, tablet, tafel
• → English: table
• French: table
• Friulian: taule
• Galician: táboa
• → German: Tafel
• → Hebrew: טבלה (tavla)
• → Hunsrik: Daafel
• Occitan: taula
• Norwegian:

  → Norwegian Bokmål: tavle

  → Norwegian Nynorsk: tavle

• → Old Norse: tafl
• Portuguese: tala, tábua
• Romanian: tablă
• → Russian: та́бель (tábelʹ), табли́ца (tablíca)
• Sardinian: taba
• → Serbo-Croatian: табла / tabla, тавла / tavla
• Sicilian: tàula
• Spanish: tabla
• → Swedish: tavla
• → Turkish: tablo, tavla
• Venetan: toła, tola, tòla

Romanian

Noun

tabla

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of tablă

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tábla f (Cyrillic spelling та́бла)

1. blackboard
2. board

   šahovska tabla ― chess board

Declension

Declension of tabla

	singular	plural
nominative	tabla	table
genitive	table	tabla / tabli
dative	tabli	tablama
accusative	tablu	table
vocative	tablo	table
locative	tabli	tablama
instrumental	tablom	tablama

Synonyms

• ploča

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tábla f (Cyrillic spelling та́бла)

1. (music) tabla

Declension

Declension of tabla

	singular	plural
nominative	tabla	table
genitive	table	tabla / tabli
dative	tabli	tablama
accusative	tablu	table
vocative	tablo	table
locative	tabli	tablama
instrumental	tablom	tablama

References

• “tabla”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• “tabla”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tabula.

Noun

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

Derived terms

• atablar
• dinero en tabla
• en tablas
• entablar
• escaparse en una tabla
• sermón de tabla
• tabla de agua
• tabla de armonía
• tabla de chilla
• tabla de cortar
• tabla de doble entrada
• tabla de jarcia
• tabla de juego
• tabla de lavar
• tabla de los sellos
• tabla de manteles
• tabla de periódica
• tabla de río
• tabla de salvación
• tabla de snow
• tabla de surf
• Tabla del Consejo
• tablas de la ley
• tablas reales
• tablazo
• tablero
• tableta
• tablón

 

Related terms

• tabulación
• tabulador
• tabular

 

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tabla

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

Further reading

• “tabla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

Tagalog

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (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

Adjective

tablá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎ)

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

   Synonyms: patas, empate, amanos

Derived terms

• magtabla
• makatabla
• tabla-manalo
• tablahan
• tablahin

 

Noun

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

Derived terms

• tablasuson

Related terms

• entablado
• tablado
• tableriya
• tablero
• tabletas
• tabliya

 

Noun

tabla or tablá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜎ)

1. table; tabular arrangement

   Synonyms: talahanayan, tabulasyon, talatumbasan, manghad

See also

• talaan
• listahan

Anagrams

• balat, tabal, talab