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 — 談/谈 (tán)
• English: tak — talk
• Hindi: bakvad — बकवाद (bakavāda)
• Spanish: abl — hablar
• 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

See also

• bacru
• casnu
• darlu
• skicu
• ciksi
• bangu

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tavlen

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

Related terms

• anslagstavla
• tavelram

See also

• målning
• tabell

Turkish

Etymology

From Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

tavla

1. tavla
2. (backgammon) backgammon