طبله

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• تابله (tabla)

Etymology

From Italian tavola (“table; board, plank”), itself from Latin tabula (“tablet”).

Noun

طبله • (tabla)

1. circular tray, usually made of wood
2. flat side of a block-sheave
3. head of a capstan
4. flat disk, cap, truck
5. flat circular expansion

Descendants

• Turkish: tavla
• → Serbo-Croatian: та̀вла

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طبله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 800
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طبله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 3087–3088
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طبله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1233

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طبله (tabla, “circular tray”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [taβ.la]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäb.lä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäb.lä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäb.lä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäb.lä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæb.le]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäb.lä]

Readings
Classical reading?	taḇla
Dari reading?	tabla
Iranian reading?	table
Tajik reading?	tabla

Dari	طبله
Iranian Persian
Tajik	табла

Noun

طبله • (table) (plural طبله‌ها (table-hâ))

1. round tray
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 283:

     طبلهها بشکست و جانها ریختند
     نیک و بد در همدگر آمیختند

     tabla-hā bi-šikast u jān-hā rēxtand
     nēk u bad dar hamdigar āmēxtand

     The trays were broken and the souls were spilled:
     good and evil ones were mingled with each other.

2. little drum

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “طبله”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim