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tavlas

tavlas is the plural of tavla.

Meaning of tavla

Noun

tavla (usually uncountable, plural tavlas)

  1. (usually) A version of the board game backgammon played widely in Turkey and other countries of the region.
    • 1978, Past the tavern and hear the joggle of tavlas — Lawrence Durrell, in a 1977 interview published in Listener, 1978, and reprinted in Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, 1998 (see p.174)

Questions about tavlas

What is tavlas the plural of?
Tavlas is the plural of tavla.

Words near tavlas in the dictionary

  1. Tavilzhanka
  2. Tavira
  3. Taviras
  4. Tavistock
  5. tavla
  6. tavlas
  7. Tavolga
  8. Tavolgas
  9. Tavon
  10. tavorite
  11. Tavoso

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