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Tabor

//ˈteɪbə(ɹ)// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A place name:; Tábor (a city in the Czech Republic).
  2. 2
    A mountain in Israel, Mount Tabor
  3. 3
    Abbreviation of Taxpayer Bill of Rights. US, abbreviation, alt-of

    ""I believe citizens of every community have the right to determine what's right for them," he said. "I don't think TABOR is a one-size fix. TABOR doesn't allow a community to determine where their future is going to go.""

  4. 4
    A place name:; A city in Slovenia.
  5. 5
    The Transfiguration of Jesus metonymically

    "the light of Tabor"

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  1. 6
    A place name:; A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
  2. 7
    A place name:; A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia, named after Tábor in Bohemia.
  3. 8
    A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
  4. 9
    A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Fremont County and Mills County, Iowa.
  5. 10
    A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Polk County, Minnesota, derived from Tábor.
  6. 11
    A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, from Tábor.
  7. 12
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A small drum.
  2. 2
    A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.

    "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."

  3. 3
    a small drum with one head of soft calfskin wordnet
  4. 4
    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.

    "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 […]"

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

Etymology

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 and tanbur.

Etymology 2

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 and tanbur.

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

From German Tabor, from Czech tábor (“camp”).

Etymology 5

From Biblical Hebrew תָּבוֹר (Tāḇôr), of uncertain origin.

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