# تاوه
## Gulf Arabic
### Noun

تاوه • (transliteration needed) f (plural تاوات)
* Alternative form of تاوة

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* تابا (taba), تاوا (tava), طابا (taba), طاوه (tava)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تاوه (tâve, “frying pan, skillet”), itself from Middle Persian tʾp̄k' (tābag).

### Noun

تاوه • (tava) (definite accusative تاوه‌یی (tavayı), plural تاوه‌لر (tavalar))
* frying pan, skillet, a long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
    Synonyms: طغان (tığan), مقلات (mıklat)

#### Derived terms

* باغ تاوه‌سی (bağ tavası, “pan in which must of grapes is boiled”)
* بالق تاوه‌سی (balık tavası, “dish of fried fish”)
* تاوه صاپی (tava sapı, “skillet handle”)
* طوزله تاوه‌سی (tuzla tavası, “evaporator in salt-works”)
* قزارتمه تاوه‌سی (kızartma tavası, “kind of frying pan”)
* كیرج تاوه‌سی (kirec tavası, “trough in which lime is slacked”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: tava
* → Albanian: tavë
* → Arabic: طَوَّايَة (ṭawwāya)
* → Bulgarian: тава (tava)
* → Greek: νταβάς (ntavás), ταβάς (tavás)
* → Macedonian: тава (tava)
* → Middle Armenian: թաւայ (tʻaway)
** Armenian: թավա (tʻava)
* → Romanian: tavă
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тава
    Latin script: tava
* → Zazaki: tava

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تاوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 436
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tava”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4641
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تاوه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 144a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تاوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 339
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sartago”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1511
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تاوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1047
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tava”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تاوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 482

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* تاوا (tâvâ)
* تابه (tâbe)
* طابه (tâbe)
* توه (tove) (dialectal, Dashtestan, Khesht)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian tʾp̄k' (tābag); see there for further information.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [tɑː.wa]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɑː.wä]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɑː.wä]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t̪ʰɑː.wä]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t̪ʰɔː.wä]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɒː.ve]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɔ.vä]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

تاوه • (tâve)
* frying pan
* pan
* skillet

#### Synonyms

* (archaic) تیان (tiyân)
* ماهیتابه (mâhi tâbe)

#### Descendants

* Tajik: тоба (toba), това (tova)
* → Abaza: таба (taba)
* → Adyghe: табэ (tabɛ)
* → Azerbaijani: tava
* → Bashkir: таба (taba)
* → Dargwa: тава (tava)
* → Georgian: ტაფა (ṭapa)
** → Ossetian: тъапа (t’apa)
* → Kabardian: табэ (tabɛ)
* → Karachay-Balkar: таба (taba)
* → Kazakh: таба (taba)
* → Kumyk: тава (tawa)
* → Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: tawe, tawan
* → Kyrgyz: таба (taba)
* → Ossetian: те́бӕ (tébæ), таба (taba), табай (tabaj), теби (tebi) (via a Turkic language)
* → Ottoman Turkish: تاوه (tava), تابا (taba), تاوا (tava), طابا (taba), طاوه (tava)
** Turkish: tava
** → Albanian: tavë
** → Arabic: طَوَّايَة (ṭawwāya)
** → Bulgarian: тава (tava)
** → Greek: νταβάς (ntavás), ταβάς (tavás)
** → Macedonian: тава (tava)
** → Middle Armenian: թաւայ (tʻaway)
*** Armenian: թավա (tʻava)
** → Romanian: tavă
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тава
    Latin script: tava
** → Zazaki: tava
* → Siberian Tatar: таба (taba)
* → Svan: ტაფა̈ (ṭapä)
* → Tatar: таба (taba)
* → Turkmen: taba
* → Udmurt: таба (taba)
* → Uzbek: tova