/ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/
OriginFrom Middle English, from Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), ultimately from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tambour and tanbur.
- 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.
“Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […]”
- A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
“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.”
- transitiveTo make (a sound) with a tabor.
- To strike lightly and frequently.
- Tábor (a city in the Czech Republic).
- A city in Slovenia.
- A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
- A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia, named after Tábor in Bohemia.
- An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
- A minor city in Fremont County and Mills County, Iowa.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Polk County, Minnesota, derived from Tábor.
- A town in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, from Tábor.
- A surname.
- A mountain in Israel, Mount Tabor
- metonymicallyThe Transfiguration of Jesus
- US, abbreviation, alt-ofAbbreviation of Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
“"I believe citizens of every community have the right to determine what's right for them," he said. "I don't think TABOR is a one-size fix. TABOR doesn't allow a community to determine where their fut”
Formstabors(plural) · tabors(present, singular, third-person) · taboring(participle, present) · tabored(participle, past) · tabored(past) · Thabor(alternative)
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