different between tabor vs tabour

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?b?(r)

Etymology 1

Middle English, from Old French tabour, ultimately from Arabic ????????? (?unb?r).

Noun

tabor (plural tabors)

1. A small drum.
   1. 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

• taborist
• taborer

Translations

Verb

tabor (third-person singular simple present tabors, present participle taboring, simple past and past participle tabored)

1. (transitive) To make (a sound) with a tabor.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.

Etymology 2

From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish ?????? (tabur).

Noun

tabor (plural tabors)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Barot, Barto, Bator, ORBAT, Tobar, Torba, abort, boart, rabot

Old French

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (?unb?r) or Persian ???? (“drum”), related to Armenian ????? (tawi?), English tabla and tambour.

Noun

tabor m (oblique plural tabors, nominative singular tabors, nominative plural tabor)

1. tambour (drum)

Polish

Etymology

From Czech Tábor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.b?r/

Noun

tabor m inan (diminutive taborek)

1. (singular only) vehicle fleet
2. (singular only) rolling stock
3. (historical) A nomadic group of Gypsies.

   Synonym: szatra

4. (historical, military) wagon fort

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) taborowa?
• (adjective) taborowy

Further reading

• tabor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tabor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Hungarian tábor, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (tabur).

Noun

t?bor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. camp

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?bo?/, [t?a???o?]

Noun

tabor m (plural tabores)

1. (military) a small battalion

English

Noun

tabour (plural tabours)

1. (music) Alternative spelling of tabor

Verb

tabour (third-person singular simple present tabours, present participle tabouring, simple past and past participle taboured)

1. Alternative spelling of tabor

Anagrams

• Aburto, Otruba, bar out, outbar, rubato