tabal

Borrowed from Arabic طَبْل (ṭabl). Compare Spanish atabal.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [təˈβal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [təˈbal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [taˈbal]

tabal m (plural tabals)

1. drum

   Synonyms: timbal, tambor

• atabalar
• tabaler
• tabalet
• timbal

• “tabal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tabal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tabal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Inherited from Malay tabal (“drum; great ceremonial gathering”), from Arabic طَبْل (ṭabl, “drumming, drumbeat; drum”), from Middle Iranian *tabir, tabil (“drum”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.bal/
• Rhymes: -bal
• Hyphenation: ta‧bal

tabal (plural tabal-tabal, first-person possessive tabalku, second-person possessive tabalmu, third-person possessive tabalnya)

1. (obsolete) royal drum

• “tabal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• tabar

From Arabic طَبْل (ṭabl).

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.bal/

tabal m (plural otbla or tbal)

1. drum

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtabal/ [ˈta.bɐl]
• Rhymes: -abal
• Syllabification: ta‧bal

tabal (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊᜎ᜔)

1. excessively leafy; excessive in foliage (resulting in fruitlessness or sterility in plants)

• baog
• matsora

tabal (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊᜎ᜔)

1. excessive growth of foliage (resulting in fruitlessness or sterility in plants)

• balat, tabla, talab