# tabor
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), ultimately from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tambour.

#### 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.
** 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield: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 […]

##### Derived terms

* taborist
* taborer

##### Translations
#### Verb

tabor (third-person singular simple present tabors, present participle taboring, simple past and past participle tabored)
* (transitive) To make (a sound) with a tabor.
* To strike lightly and frequently.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

tabor (plural tabors)
* A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
** 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 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

* rabot, Bator, Tobar, tobra, abort, Barot, Barto, Torba, boart, ORBAT

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Cognate with Ottoman Turkish طابور.

### Noun

tabor (definite accusative taboru, plural taborlar)
* (military) battalion
    Synonym: batalyon

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “tabor” in Obastan.com.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr) or Persian طبل (“drum”), related to Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), English tabla and tambour.

### Noun

tabor oblique singular, m (oblique plural tabors, nominative singular tabors, nominative plural tabor)
* tambour (drum)

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Czech tábor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.bɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -abɔr
* Syllabification: ta‧bor
* Homophone: Tabor

### Noun

tabor m inan (diminutive taborek, related adjective taborowy)
* (uncountable) vehicle fleet
* (uncountable) rolling stock
* (countable, historical) nomadic group of Gypsies
    Synonym: szatra
* (countable, historical, military) wagon fort

#### Derived terms

* taborować impf

### Further reading

* tabor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* tabor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* tabor in PWN's encyclopedia

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tâːbor/

### Noun

tȃbor m (Cyrillic spelling та̑бор)
* camp

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “tabor”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taˈboɾ/ [t̪aˈβ̞oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: ta‧bor

### Noun

tabor m (plural tabores)
* (military) a small battalion

### Further reading

* “tabor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10