tabor
/ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/
tabor noun: a small drum.
Noun (1)
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.
- 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 […]1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield
- 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.
Verb
tabor (third-person singular simple present tabors, present participle taboring, simple past and past participle tabored)
- To make (a sound) with a tabor.
- To strike lightly and frequently.
Noun (2)
tabor (plural tabors)
- 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.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 269
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Tabor
Tabor
- Tábor (a city in the Czech Republic).
- A city in Slovenia.
- A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
- A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia, named after Tábor in Bohemia.
- An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
- A minor city in Fremont County and Mills County, Iowa.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Polk County, Minnesota, derived from Tábor.
- A town in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, from Tábor.
- A surname.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tabor
Tabor
- A mountain in Israel, Mount Tabor
- The Transfiguration of Jesus
- the light of Tabor
Proper noun (3) capitalized: TABOR
TABOR
- Abbreviation of Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
- "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."2006 October 8, Susan M. Cover, “TABOR: A problem, or the solution?”, in Kennebec Journal, archived from the original on 27 May 2008
Forms of tabor
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tabors |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tabors |
| present participle | taboring |
| past participle | tabored |
| past | tabored |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Thabor |
Origin of tabor
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.
From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).
From German Tabor, from Czech tábor (“camp”).
Words formed from tabor
Phrases with tabor
Words that rhyme with tabor
Questions about tabor
- What does tabor mean?
- Tabor means a small drum.
- What part of speech is tabor?
- Tabor can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tabor?
- Tabor is pronounced /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of tabor?
- The plural of tabor is tabors.
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