# table
## English
### Alternative forms

* tyebble (Geordie)

### Etymology

Inherited 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” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: tāʹbəl, IPA: /ˈteɪbl̩/
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: [ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩]
*** Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
** (US) IPA: [ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ]
*** Audio (General American):(file)
** (General Australian) IPA: [ˈtʰæɪbəɫ]
*** Audio (General Australian):(file)
** (Canada) IPA: [ˈtʰeːb(ə)ɫ]
*** (dialectal) IPA: [ˈtɛːb(ə)ɫ]
** (Indic) IPA: [ˈʈeːbɨl], [-äl]
* Hyphenation: ta‧ble
* Rhymes: -eɪbəl

### Noun

table (plural tables)
* (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
** An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
    Set that dish on the table over there, please.
*** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
*** 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].
** The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
** A flat tray which can be used as a table.
** A supply of food or entertainment.
    The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
** A service of Holy Communion.
** (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
** A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
* A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flaſhes of Merriment that were wont to ſet the Table on a Rore?
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
** (poker, metonymically) The lineup of players at a given table.
    That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event
** (roleplaying games, metonymically) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
** (waitstaff, metonymically) A group of diners at a given table or tables.
    Table 9 wants another round of beers.
    John always gets the best tips because he gets the best tables! It's not fair!
* A two-dimensional presentation of data.
** A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
*** 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 69: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.
** A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
    The children were practising multiplication tables.
    Don’t you know your tables?
    Here is a table of natural logarithms.
** (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
** (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
*** 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table.
* (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
* The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
* A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
* (obsolete, biblical) A writing tablet.

#### Synonyms

* (computing): grid, vector

#### Hypernyms

* (computing): array
* (furniture): furniture

#### Hyponyms

* billiard table
* coffee table
* dining table
* dinner table
* dressing table
* drop-leaf table
* end table
* examination table
* gateleg table
* kiddie table
* leave on the table
* milking table
* mortality table
* negotiating table
* negotiation table
* occasional table
* pier table
* pool table
* roller table
* round table
* table tennis table
* tea table
* toilet table
* vanity table
* wall table
* worktable
* tea table
* water table
* Cayley table
* data table
* division table
* file allocation table
* function table
* hash table
* league table
* log table
* lookup table
* multiplication table
* periodic table
* rainbow table
* shake table
* tide table
* time table
* truth table

#### Coordinate terms

* (furniture): chair

#### Derived terms

* at table
* bar table
* bedside table
* bedtable
* bench table
* bird table
* book table
* bottom of the table
* bring to the table
* capitalization table
* cap table
* captain's table
* card table
* changing table
* chart table
* chef's table
* children's table
* clear the table
* cocktail table
* coffee table book, coffee-table book
* concentration table
* console table
* contingency table
* corbel table
* crosstable
* dining-table
* dinner-table
* dispatch table
* distributed hash table
* down-table
* drafting table
* drawing table
* dressing-table
* drink someone under the table
* drinks table
* drinks-table
* drink table
* drink-table
* drink under the table
* entable
* experience table
* extension table
* factorial table
* fact table
* farm-to-table
* fence the tables
* fire table
* frame table
* gypsy table
* hashtable
* high score table
* high-score table
* high table
* hobby table
* ICE table
* imposing table
* input-output table
* inversion table
* junction table
* kiddies' table
* kiddy table
* kids' table
* kid table
* kitchen table issue
* kitchen table polyamory
* kitchen table software
* kitchen-table software
* lay one's cards on the table
* lay the table
* lifetable
* light table
* loo-table
* loo table
* Lord's table
* massage table
* medal table
* metatable
* midtable
* Morrison table
* multitable
* mutating table
* nature table
* night table
* Noguchi table
* off the table
* on the table
* open table
* operating room table
* operating-room table
* operating table
* page table
* Parsons table
* pay table
* Pembroke table
* picnic table
* piece table
* pintable
* pivot table
* pizza table
* place one's cards on the table
* plane table
* pound the table
* put bread on the table
* put food on the table
* put one's cards on the table
* racetrack table
* readtable
* read the table
* refectory table
* retable
* RICE table
* rotary table
* run the table
* sand table
* seat at the table
* self-waiting table
* set the table
* shuffleboard table
* side-table
* side table
* sitting table
* sleeping table
* snooker table
* sorting table
* sound table
* soundtable
* sparse table
* speed table
* spider table
* steamtable
* steam table
* subtable
* supertable
* swing table
* symbol table
* table apple
* tablebase
* Table Bay
* table beer
* table board
* table boarder
* tablebook
* table-cloth
* tablecloth
* table cloth
* table dance
* table dancer
* table dancing
* table-decker
* table decoration
* table d'hote
* table d'hôte
* table diamond
* table-diamond
* table drain
* tablefellow
* table football
* tableful
* table game
* tablegrape
* table grape
* table hockey
* tablehood
* table-hop
* table-hopper
* table hymn
* tableity
* table knife
* table lamp
* tableland
* tableless
* table lighter
* tablelike
* table-linen
* table linen
* tablemaid
* tablemaker
* table-maker's dilemma
* tablemaking
* tableman
* table manners
* table mat
* tablemate
* table money
* tablemount
* Table Mountain
* table mountain
* Table Mountains
* tableness
* table of contents
* table of death
* table rapping
* table read
* table salt
* table saw
* tablescape
* table scrap
* table setting
* table-setting
* table-shade
* table shower
* table shuffleboard
* tableside
* table soccer
* table song
* tablespace
* table spice
* table-spoon
* tablespoon
* table stakes
* table steel
* table steel guitar
* table steel guitarist
* tablestone
* table sugar
* tablet
* table-talk
* table talk
* table talker
* table tennis
* table tent
* table-tipping
* table-top
* tabletop
* tabletopped
* table-turner
* table-turning
* tableward
* tablewards
* tableware
* table water
* table wine
* tablewise
* tableword
* tablework
* tableworthy
* talk someone under the table
* tea-table
* throwing table
* tilt table test
* times table
* time-table
* timetable
* toilet-table
* toning table
* traverse table
* tray-table
* tray table
* trestle table
* trivet table
* turntable
* turn the table
* turn the tables
* two-table
* under-the-table
* under the table
* unset the table
* vaulting table
* wait on tables
* wait tables
* washhand table
* wavetable
* whirling table
* Wilfley table

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: টেবুল (tebul)
* → Bengali: টেবিল (ṭebil)
* → Gujarati: ટેબલ (ṭebal)
* → Japanese: テーブル (tēburu)
* → Korean: 테이블 (teibeul)
* → Maori: tēpu
* → Nepali: टेबुल (ṭebul)
* → Odia: ଟେବଲ୍ (ṭebal)
* → Sylheti: ꠐꠦꠛꠥꠟ (ṭebul)
* → Telugu: టేబులు (ṭēbulu)

#### Translations

Afrikaans: tafel (af)
Albanian: tryezë (sq) f
Amharic: ጠረጴዛ m (ṭäräp̣eza)
Arabic: طَاوِلَة (ar) f (ṭāwila), مِنْضَدَة f (minḍada)
Algerian Arabic: طابلة
Egyptian Arabic: تربيزة f (ṭarabēza)
Gulf Arabic: طاولة (ṭāwla), ميز (mēz)
Hijazi Arabic: طاولة f (ṭāwla)
Iraqi Arabic: ميز f (mēz), منضدة f (minḍade)
Juba Arabic: tarabeeza
Lebanese Arabic: طاولة f (ṭāwle)
Moroccan Arabic: طابلة f (ṭābla), طبلة f (ṭabla), ميدة f (mīda), طاولة f (ṭāwla)
Yemeni Arabic (San'ani): مايده f (maydeh)
Armenian: սեղան (hy) (seġan)
Aromanian: measã f
Assamese: মেজ (mez), টেবুল (tebul)
Asturian: mesa (ast) f
Azerbaijani: stol (az), masa (az)
Baba Malay: toh
Bashkir: өҫтәл (öśtəl)
Basque: mahai (eu)
Belarusian: стол (be) m (stol)
Bengali: টেবিল (bn) (ṭebil), মেজ (bn) (mej)
Breton: taol (br)
Brunei Malay: mija
Bulgarian: ма́са (bg) f (mása)
Burmese: စားပွဲ (my) (ca:pwai:)
Buryat: стол (stol)
Carpathian Rusyn: стул m (stul)
Catalan: taula (ca) f
Cebuano: lamesa, talad
Central Dusun: mija
Chagatai: شِیرَهْ (šīräh)
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: mesa
Chechen: стол (stol)
Cherokee: ᎦᏍᎩᎶ (gasgilo)
Cheyenne: táxemésėhestȯtse
Chinese:
Cantonese: 檯 / 台, 枱 (toi$^{4-2}$)
Dungan: җуәзы (žuəzɨ)
Eastern Min: 桌 (dŏ̤)
Hokkien: 桌仔 (zh-min-nan) (toh-á), 桌 (zh-min-nan) (toh)
Mandarin: 桌子 (zh) (zhuōzi)
Wu: 檯子 / 台子 ($^6$de-tsy)
Chuvash: сӗтел (sĕt̬el)
Comox: θewθeytən
Coptic:
Bohairic: ⲧⲣⲁⲡⲉⲍⲁ f (trapeza), ⲫⲟⲣϣⲓ f (phorši)
Sahidic: ⲧⲣⲁⲡⲉⲍⲁ f (trapeza), ⲡⲟⲣϣⲥ f (poršs)
Cornish: moos f, bordh m
Crimean Tatar: masa, sofra
Czech: stůl (cs) m
Dalmatian: maisa f
Danish: bord (da) n
Dhivehi: މޭޒު (mēzu)
Dongxiang: shire
Drung: co'ceuq, sara
Dutch: tafel (nl) f
Eastern Khanty: пәсан (pəsan)
Egyptian: R3A (ṯt f)
Erzya: тувор (tuvor)
Esperanto: tablo (eo)
Estonian: laud (et)
Faroese: borð (fo) n
Finnish: pöytä (fi)
French: table (fr) f
Friulian: taule f
Gagauz: masa
Galician: mesa (gl) f
Georgian: მაგიდა (ka) (magida)
German: Tisch (de) m
Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌸𐍃 m (biuþs), 𐌼𐌴𐍃 n (mēs)
Greek: τραπέζι (el) n (trapézi)
Ancient: τράπεζα f (trápeza)
Gujarati: મેજ (gu) n (mej), ટેબલ n (ṭebal)
Haitian Creole: tab
Hawaiian: pākaukau
Hebrew: שולחן \ שֻׁלְחָן (he) m (shulkhán)
Higaonon: lamesa
Hindi: पटल (hi) (paṭal), उत्पीठिका f (utpīṭhikā), मेज़ (hi) f (mez)
Hiri Motu: pata
Hungarian: asztal (hu)
Hunsrik: Disch m
Iban: mija
Icelandic: borð (is) n
Ido: tablo (io)
Indonesian: meja (id)
Ingrian: kans, lauta, pöytä
Interlingua: tabula
Iranun: please add this translation if you can
Irish: bord (ga) m, tábla m, clár m, táblaí pl, cláranna pl
Italian: tavola (it) f, tavolo (it) m
Iu Mien: dieh
Japanese: 台 (ja) (だい, dai), 机 (ja) (つくえ, tsukue), テーブル (ja) (tēburu), 卓 (ja) (たく, taku), 卓袱台 (ja) (ちゃぶだい, chabudai)
Javanese: kotak, méja
Kaingang: mẽja
Kalmyk: ширә (şirä)
Kamba: mesa
Kannada: ಮೇಜು (kn) (mēju)
Kaqchikel: ch’atal
Karachay-Balkar: тепси (tepsi)
Karakalpak: stol
Kashubian: stół m
Kazakh: үстел (kk) (üstel), стол (stol)
Khakas: стол (stol)
Khmer: តុ (km) (tok)
Kikuyu: metha
Kituba: meza
Komi-Permyak: пызан (pyzan)
Komi-Zyrian: пызан (pyzan)
Kongo: meza
Korean: 테이블 (ko) (teibeul), 탁자(卓子) (ko) (takja), 상(床) (ko) (sang), 밥상 (ko) (bapsang)
Kumyk: стол (stol)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مێز (ckb) (mêz)
Northern Kurdish: mase (ku) f, mêze (ku) f
Kyrgyz: үстөл (ky) (üstöl), стол (ky) (stol)
Ladin: please add this translation if you can
Ladino:
Hebrew: מיזה f
Roman: meza f
Lao: ໂຕະ (lo) (to)
Latgalian: golds m
Latin: mensa (la) f
Latvian: galds (lv) m
Lezgi: ствал (st°al)
Ligurian: töa f
Limburgish: taofel (li)
Lingala: mésá
Lithuanian: stalas (lt) m
Livonian: lōda
Lombard: taul m
Louisiana Creole French: latab
Lü: ᦈᦸᧉ (ṫsoa²)
Luhya: emesa
Luo: mesa
Luxembourgish: Dësch (lb) m
Macedonian: маса (mk) f (masa)
Madurese: mèjâ
Maguindanao: dulang
Malay: meja (ms)
Malayalam: മേശ (ml) (mēśa)
Maltese: mejda f
Mandinka: meso
Manx: boayrd m
Maori: tēpu, paparahua, papakai (refers only to a meal table)
Maranao: lamisa
Marathi: मेज (mr) (mej)
Maricopa: lames
Minangkabau: please add this translation if you can
Mohawk: atekhwà:ra
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: ширээ (mn) (širee)
Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠷᠡᠭᠡ (sirege)
Motu: pata
Navajo: bikááʼ adání
Nepali: टेबुल (ṭebul)
Ngazidja Comorian: meza class 9/10, ulio class 11, latabu class 9/10
Nivkh: остол (ostol)
North Frisian: (Mooring) scheew f, (Föhr-Amrum) boosel m
Northern Khanty: пӑсан (păsan)
Northern Mansi: пасан (pasan)
Northern Sami: beavdi
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bord (no) n
Nynorsk: bord n
Nuosu: ꁱꄜ (bbur ti)
Occitan: taula (oc) f
Odia: ଟେବଲ୍ (or) (ṭebal)
Ojibwe: adoopowin
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: столъ m (stolŭ)
Glagolitic: ⱄⱅⱁⰾⱏ m (stolŭ)
Old East Slavic: столъ m (stolŭ)
Old English: bēod m
Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
Ottoman Turkish: ماسه (masa), طراپزه (tırapeza), اسطال (astal)
Palauan: tebel
Pashto: مېز m (mez)
Persian:
Dari: میز (fa) (mēz)
Iranian Persian: میز (fa) (miz)
Piedmontese: taola f
Plautdietsch: Desch m
Polish: stół (pl) m
Portuguese: mesa (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਮੇਜ਼ f (mez)
Shahmukhi: میز f (mez)
Quechua: patacha
Rohingya: mes
Romagnol: têvla f
Romani: mesalya f
Romanian: masă (ro) f
Romansch: maisa f, meisa f, mesa f
Russian: стол (ru) m (stol)
Sango: meza (sg)
Sanskrit: भार्मन् (sa) m (bhārman)
Sardinian: mesa f
Scottish Gaelic: bòrd m, clàr m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сто̑л m, сто̑ m, а̀ста̄л m
Roman: stȏl (sh) m, stȏ (sh) m, àstāl (sh) m
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Shor: терги (tergi)
Sicilian: tàvula (scn) f, tàula (scn) f
Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)
Slovak: stôl (sk) m
Slovene: miza (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: blido n
Upper Sorbian: blido n
Sotho: tafole (st)
Southern Altai: стол (stol)
Southern Sami: buertie
Spanish: mesa (es) f
Sranan Tongo: tafra
Sundanese: méja (su)
Swahili: meza (sw)
Swedish: bord (sv) n
Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
Tagalog: mesa (tl)
Tajik: миз (tg) (miz)
Tamil: மேசை (ta) (mēcai), மேஜை (ta) (mējai)
Taos: mę́soną
Tarantino: tavele f
Tatar: өстәл (tt) (östäl)
Telugu: బల్ల (te) (balla), మేజా (te) (mējā), టేబులు (ṭēbulu)
Thai: โต๊ะ (th) (dtó)
Tibetan: ལྕོག་ཙེ (lcog tse), ཅོག་ཙེ (cog tse)
Tigrinya: ጣውላ (ṭawla)
Turkish: masa (tr)
Turkmen: stol
Tuvan: стол (stol)
Udi: истӏол (isṭol)
Udmurt: ӝӧк (džök)
Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎍𐎈𐎐 (ṯlḥn)
Ukrainian: стіл (uk) m (stil)
Umbundu: omesa
Urdu: میز f (mez), پَٹَل m (paṭal), اُتْپِیٹِھکا f (utpīṭhikā),
Uyghur: جوزا (joza), ئۈستەل (üstel)
Uzbek: stol (uz), miz (uz)
Venetan: tòla (vec), toła f
Vietnamese: bàn (vi) (盤)
Vilamovian: tejš m
Walloon: tåve (wa) f
Waray-Waray: lamisa
Welsh: bwrdd (cy) m, bord (cy) f, tabl (cy) f
West Frisian: tafel c
White Hmong: rooj
Winnebago: waaruc
Yagnobi: истал (istal)
Yakut: остуол (ostuol)
Yiddish: טיש m (tish)
Yup'ik: estuuluq
Zazaki: mase (diq)
Zhuang: congz, daiz
Zulu: itafula (zu) class 5/6 :
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#### References

* table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Verb

table (third-person singular simple present tables, present participle tabling, simple past and past participle tabled)
* To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. [from 15th c.]
    to table fines
* (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
* (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
* (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 January 16, Heather Stewart, Daniel Boffey, The Guardian: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.
* (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.
* (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th–19th c.]
* 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.
* (poker, colloquial) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
* (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

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### See also

* tabula rasa

### References

* table (parliamentary procedure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* ablet, Taleb, belta, blate, bleat

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tabl/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

table f (plural tables)
* (countable) table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)
    Pourquoi as-tu laissé ces livres sur la table ?Why did you leave these books on the table?
* flat surface atop various objects
* flat part of a cut or carved object
* (music) table of a stringed instrument
* matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns
* systematic list of content

##### Derived terms

* à table
* attabler
* avoir table ouverte
* bière de table
* dessous-de-table
* devoir sur table
* entabler
* hockey sur table
* jouer cartes sur table
* mettre la table
* mettre ses couilles sur la table
* mettre sur la table
* ordinateur de table
* passer sous la table
* poser ses couilles sur la table
* se mettre à table
* sel de table
* table à manger
* table à repasser
* table basse
* table de chevet
* table de multiplication
* table de nuit
* table des matières
* table des négociations
* table d’hôte
* table rase
* table ronde
* tabler
* taper du poing sur la table
* tenir table ouverte
* tennis de table
* tour de table
* vin de table

##### Related terms

* tableau
* tabulaire
* tabulation

##### Descendants

* Louisiana Creole: latab
* → Bulgarian: табла (tabla)
* → Macedonian: табла (tabla)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: табла
    Latin script: tabla

### Etymology 2

From the verb tabler.

#### Verb

table
* inflection of tabler:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “table”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* balte, bêlât

## Hawaiian Creole
### Etymology

Derived from English table.

### Noun

table
* (countable) table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)
** 2000, “Matthew 15”, in Joseph Grimes, transl., Da Jesus Book: Hawaii Pidgin New Testament‎, Wycliffe Bible Translators, →ISBN, page 47:She say, “Dass right, Boss. But eh, even da dogs unda da table eat wat fall down from da table, yeah?”“Yes, Lord, but even the dogs can eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table,” she replied.

## 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: /ˈtaːbəl/, /ˈtaːblə/

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* rounde table
* table rounde

#### Related terms

* tablement
* tablen
* tabler
* tablet

#### Descendants

* English: table (see there for further descendants)
* Geordie English: tyeble
* Scots: table
* → Welsh: tabl

#### References

* “tāble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin tabula.

### Noun

table oblique singular, f (oblique plural tables, nominative singular table, nominative plural tables)
* (countable) table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)

#### Descendants

* French: table
** Louisiana Creole: latab
** → Bulgarian: табла (tabla)
** → Macedonian: табла (tabla)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: табла
    Latin script: tabla
* Walloon: tåve
* → Irish: tábla
* → Middle English: table, tabel, tabil, tabul, tabyl, tabyle, tabyll, tabulle, tabele, tabill
** English: table (see there for further descendants)
** Geordie English: tyeble
** Scots: table
** → Welsh: tabl

#### See also

* nape

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* табле (table) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

### Etymology

Derived from Greek τάβλι (távli).

### Noun

table f pl (plural only)
* plural of tablă
* backgammon

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Verb

table
* inflection of tablar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative