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Webster 1913 Edition
Tabor
Ta′bor
,Noun.
[OF.
tabor
, tabour
, F. tambour
; cf. Pr. tabor
, tanbor
, Sp. & Pg. tambor
, atambor
, It. tamburo
; all fr. Ar. & Per. tamb[GREEK]r
a kind of lute, or giutar, or Per. tabīr
a drum. Cf. Tabouret
, Tambour
.] (Mus.)
A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
[Written also
tabour
, and taber
.] Ta′bor
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tabored
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Taboring
.] [Cf. OF.
taborer
.] [Written also
tabour
.] 1.
To play on a tabor, or little drum.
2.
To strike lightly and frequently.
Ta′bor
,Verb.
T.
To make (a sound) with a tabor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tabor
TA'BOR
,Noun.
TA'BOR
,Verb.
I.
Her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, taboring upon their breasts. Nah.2.
1.
To play on a tabor or little drum.Definition 2024
Tabor
tabor
tabor
English
illustration by Praetorius
Noun
tabor (plural tabors)
- A small drum. 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
small drum
Verb
tabor (third-person singular simple present tabors, present participle taboring, simple past and past participle tabored)
- To make (a sound) with a tabor.
- To strike lightly and frequently.
Etymology 2
From various Slavic languages, from Turkish.
Noun
tabor (plural tabors)
- 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.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 269:
Anagrams
Old French
Noun
tabor m (oblique plural tabors, nominative singular tabors, nominative plural tabor)
- tambour (drum)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈta.bɔr/
Noun
tabor m inan
- (singular only) vehicle fleet
- (singular only) rolling stock
- (historical) nomadic group of Gypsies
- (historical) wagon fort
Declension
declension of tabor
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Hungarian tábor, from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (compare Turkish tabur, from tabkur).
Noun
tȃbor m (Cyrillic spelling та̑бор)
Declension
Declension of tabor
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tabor | tabori |
| genitive | tabora | tabora |
| dative | taboru | taborima |
| accusative | tabor | tabore |
| vocative | tabore | tabori |
| locative | taboru | taborima |
| instrumental | taborom | taborima |