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Tabal

Tabal proper noun: a region of southern Central Anatolia during the Iron Age.

Proper noun

Tabal

  1. (historical) A region of southern Central Anatolia during the Iron Age.
    Synonyms:
    Cappadocia
  2. (historical) A Luwian-speaking Syro-Hittite petty kingdom in that region and period.

Synonyms of Tabal

Origin of Tabal

Learned borrowing from Neo-Assyrian 𒆳𒋫𒁄 (ᴷᵁᴿta-bal /⁠Tabal⁠/) of uncertain etymology. See Tabal to explore further. Compare Biblical Hebrew תֻּבַל (tuḇal).

Words formed from Tabal

Questions about Tabal

What does Tabal mean?
Tabal means a region of southern Central Anatolia during the Iron Age.
What part of speech is Tabal?
Tabal is a proper noun.

Words near Tabal in the dictionary

  1. tabagies
  2. Tabak
  3. Tabaka
  4. Tabakas
  5. Tabaks
  6. Tabal
  7. tabaldi
  8. tabaldis
  9. Tabalian
  10. Tabalians
  11. tabalumab

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tabal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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