different between table vs tabla

English

Alternative forms

• tyebble (Geordie)

Etymology

From Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture with the flat top and legs” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used b?od or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: t??b?l, IPA^(key): /?te?b?l/
• Rhymes: -e?b?l
• Hyphenation: ta?ble

Noun

table (plural tables)

1. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
   1. An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
   2. The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
   3. A flat tray which can be used as a table.
   4. (poker, metonymically) The lineup of players at a given table.

   5. A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
   6. A supply of food or entertainment.

      The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.

   7. A service of Holy Communion.
2. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
   1. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
      • 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

        I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
        And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation.
        Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
        Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

   2. A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.

   3. (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
   4. (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
3. (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
4. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
5. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.

Synonyms

• (computing): grid, vector

Hypernyms

• (computing): array
• (furniture): furniture

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Pages starting with “table”.

Related terms

Coordinate terms

• (furniture): chair

Descendants

• ? Assamese: ????? (tebul)
• ? Bengali: ????? (?ebil)
• ? Gujarati: ???? (?ebal)
• ? Japanese: ???? (t?buru)
• ? Korean: ??? (teibeul)
• ? Maori: t?pu
• ? Nepali: ????? (?ebul)
• ? Oriya: ????? (?ebôl)

Translations

References

• table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

table (third-person singular simple present tables, present participle tabling, simple past and past participle tabled)

1. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. [from 15th c.]

2. (now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. [from 15th c.]
   • 'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton

     At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni

3. (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. [17th–19th c.]
   • c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew

     tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation

4. (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda. [from 17th c.]
   • 2019, Heather Stewart and Daniel Boffey, The Guardian, 16 January:

     In a raucous Commons, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed he had tabled a formal motion of confidence in the government, backed by other opposition leaders, which MPs would vote on on Wednesday.

5. (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something). [from 19th c.]

   The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.

   The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.

6. (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th–19th c.]
7. To put on a table. [from 19th c.]
   • 1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson

     [A]fter some clatter offered us a rent of five pounds for the right to shoot here, and even tabled the cash that moment, and would not pocket it again.

8. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.

Related terms

• tabulate

Translations

See also

• tabula rasa

References

• table (parliamentary procedure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ablet, blate, bleat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tabl/

Etymology 1

From Old French table, from Latin tabula (“tablet”). Doublet of tôle and taule.

Noun

table f (plural tables)

1. table (item of furniture)

2. flat surface atop various objects
3. flat part of a cut or carved object
4. (music) table of a stringed instrument
5. matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns
6. systematic list of content

Derived terms

Related terms

• tableau
• tabulaire
• tabulation

Descendants

• ? Bulgarian: ????? (tabla)
• ? Macedonian: ????? (tabla)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ?????

  Latin: tabla

Etymology 2

From the verb tabler.

Verb

table

1. first-person singular present indicative of tabler
2. third-person singular present indicative of tabler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tabler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tabler
5. second-person singular imperative of tabler

Anagrams

• balte, bêlât

Further reading

• “table” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tabel, tabil, tabul, tabyl, tabyle, tabyll, tabulle, tabele, tabill

Etymology

From a combination of Old French table and Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula, both from Latin tabula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?b?l/, /?ta?bl?/

Noun

table (plural tables or (early) tablen)

1. A table (furniture with a level surface):
   1. The top of a table (flat surface of a table for use)
   2. (figuratively) A location where one's soul receives nutrition.
   3. (figuratively) A serving or portion of food.
2. A level writing surface:
   1. A tablet, especially a portable one for writing on.
   2. An inscribed memorial, dedication, message, or other text; a sign or monument.
   3. (biblical) The physical Ten Commandments handed down from heaven.
3. Any (relatively) level surface:
   1. A wooden pole or board (especially behind an altar).
   2. The board of a board game (often divided in two).
   3. A level, floor or storey (of a building)
   4. Such a surface used for painting.
   5. (rare) A flat piece of arable land.
   6. (rare, palmistry) A portion of the hand surrounded by palm lines.
4. A glossary or almanac; a reference work or chart of data.
5. A board game similar to backgammon.
6. (rare) A flat bone or fused set of bones.

Related terms

• tablement
• tablen
• tabler
• tablet

Derived terms

• rounde table, table rounde

Descendants

• English: table (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: table
• ? Welsh: tabl

References

• “t?ble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tabula.

Noun

table f (oblique plural tables, nominative singular table, nominative plural tables)

1. table (furniture)

Descendants

• French: table
  • ? Bulgarian: ????? (tabla)
  • ? Macedonian: ????? (tabla)
  • ? Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ?????

    Latin: tabla

• Walloon: tåve
• ? Irish: tábla
• ? Middle English: table, tabel, tabil, tabul, tabyl, tabyle, tabyll, tabulle, tabele, tabill
  • English: table (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: table
  • ? Welsh: tabl

See also

• nape

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek ????? (távli). Doublet of tabl?.

Noun

table f pl (plural only)

1. backgammon

Spanish

Verb

table

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tablar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tablar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tablar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tablar.

English

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (tabl?), from Arabic ???????? (?abla). 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

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

Verb

tabla

1. third-person singular past historic of tabler

Italian

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (tabl?), from Arabic ?????? (?abl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.bla/
• Rhymes: -abla
• Hyphenation: tà?bla

Noun

tabla f (invariable)

1. (music) tabla

Latin

Etymology

From tabula, which underwent syncope. This term is attested in the Appendix Probi, a compilation of common mistakes written in the Late Antiquity.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ta.bla/, [?t?äb??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ta.bla/, [?t???bl?]

Noun

tabla f (genitive tablae); first declension

1. (Vulgar Latin, proscribed) Alternative form of tabula ("tablet").
   • 3rd–4th century C.E., Appendix Probi:

     tabula non tabla

     [Use] tabula, not tabla.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

First declension.

Descendants

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From French table or Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??bla/
• Hyphenation: tab?la

Noun

tábla f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. blackboard
2. board

Declension

Synonyms

• plo?a

Etymology 2

From Hindi ???? (tabl?), from Arabic ???????? (?abla), ?????? (?abl, “drum”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??bla/
• Hyphenation: tab?la

Noun

tábla f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

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Declension

References

• “tabla” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “tabla” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tabula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tabla/, [?t?a.??la]

Noun

tabla f (plural tablas)

1. board, plank
2. slab

   Synonym: plancha

3. table (grid or matrix, in a book)
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

(diminutive tablilla or tablita) (augmentative tablón)

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Moroccan Arabic: ?????? (??bla), ????? (?abla)