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tavla

tavla

See also: tävla

English

Noun

tavla (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)

Lojban

Etymology

In Lojbanized spelling.

  • Chinese: tan — / (tán)
  • English: tak — talk
  • Hindi: bakvad — बकवाद (bakavāda)
  • Spanish: ablhablar
  • Russian: gavar — говорить (govoritʹ)
  • Arabic: kalam

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtav.la/

Gismu

tavla (rafsi tav or ta'a)

  1. talk; x1 talks/speaks to x2 about subject x3 in language x4
    mi tavla do fo la glibau
    I talk to you in English.
    le sutra tavla
    the fast talker
    lenu sutra tavla
    the fast talking
    mi sutra tavla do la lojban. la gliban.
    I talk swiftly to you about Lojban in English.

Derived terms

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

tavla m, f

  1. definite feminine singular of tavle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tavla f

  1. definite singular of tavle

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (compare Turkish tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla f (Cyrillic spelling тавла)

  1. tavla
  2. (backgammon, regional) backgammon

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Latin tabula via German Tafel.

Noun

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

Declension

Inflection of tavla 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tavla tavlan tavlor tavlorna
Genitive tavlas tavlans tavlors tavlornas

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Turkish

Etymology

From Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla

  1. tavla
  2. (backgammon) backgammon