taber

See also: Taber

English

Noun

taber (plural tabers)

  1. (music) Obsolete spelling of tabor

Verb

taber (third-person singular simple present tabers, present participle tabering, simple past and past participle tabered)

  1. Obsolete spelling of tabor
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nahum 2:7:
      And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Antoine Galland, transl., Les mille et une nuits, translation of أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ [ʔalfu laylatin walaylatun, One Thousand and One Nights] (in Arabic); translated as anonymous translator, Arabian Night's Entertainments, 12th edition, volume 2, London: printed for T. Longman, at the Ship in Paternoster-Row, published 1767, 1706, page 122:
      It was during this interval that Humpback came half drunk before my shop, where he sung and tabered.

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Danish

Etymology 1

From tabe (“to lose”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtˢæːb̥ɐ]

Noun

taber c (singular definite taberen, plural indefinite tabere)

  1. a loser
Declension
Declension of taber
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative taber taberen taber taberne
genitive tabers taberens tabers tabernes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtˢæˀb̥ɐ], (colloquial) IPA(key): [ˈtˢawˀɐ]

Verb

taber

  1. present of tabe
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