gabel

See also: Gabel

English

Etymology

From French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪbəl/

Noun

gabel (plural gabels)

  1. (UK, law, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
    • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
      He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gabel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From gabë (“lie, deception”) +‎ -el (suffix).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɡaˈbɛl]

Noun

gabel m (plural gabelë, definite gabeli, definite plural gabelët)

  1. (derogatory, vulgar) a Gypsy, Roma

Declension
Declension of gabel
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative gabel gabelë gabeli gabelët
accusative gabelin
dative gabeli gabelëve gabelit gabelëvet
ablative gabelësh

Synonyms

References
  1. Topalli, K. (2017) “gabel”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 518

Cimbrian

Noun

gàbel

  1. plural of gabala
  2. dative singular of gabala

German

Verb

gabel

  1. inflection of gabeln:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German gabel, gabele, from Old High German gabala, from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”). Cognate with German Gabel.

Noun

gabel f

  1. fork

References
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