different between tax vs gabel

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?ks, IPA^(key): /tæks/
• Homophone: tacks
• Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English taxe, from Anglo-Norman tax and Old French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa.

Noun

tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)

1. Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

   Synonyms: impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand, levy

   Antonym: subsidy
2. (figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
3. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
4. (obsolete) charge; censure

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5. (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.

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Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: takis
  • ? Rotokas: takisi

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin tax?re, present active infinitive of tax? (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I compute”).

Verb

tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)

1. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
2. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).

3. (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
4. (transitive) To accuse.
5. (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.

Derived terms

• taxable
• taxation

Translations

Anagrams

• ATX, xat

Latin

Alternative forms

• tuxtax

Interjection

tax

1. an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack

References

• tax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• tax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??x/

Noun

tax f (Arabic spelling ????)

1. district, neighborhood, quarter
2. district, region

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Homophone: tacks

Noun

tax c

1. a dachshund (dog breed)

Declension

English

Etymology

From French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?b?l/

Noun

gabel (plural gabels)

1. (Britain, law, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.

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   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.

Anagrams

• Gable, Gebal, bagel, gable, galbe, gleba

Albanian

Etymology

From gabë (“lie, deception”) +? -el (suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a?b?l]

Noun

gabel m (indefinite plural gabelë, definite singular gabeli, definite plural gabelët)

1. (derogatory, vulgar) a Gypsy, Roma

Declension

Synonyms

• rom
• magjup
• arixhi
• jevg
• evgjit

References

Cimbrian

Noun

gàbel

1. plural of gabala
2. dative singular of gabala

German

Verb

gabel

1. inflection of gabeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German gabel, gabele, from Old High German gabala, from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”). Cognate with German Gabel.

Noun

gabel f

1. fork

References

• “gabel” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy., p. 29