atavaque

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الطَّبَق (aṭ-ṭabaq, “plate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ataˈβake/
• Rhymes: -ake
• Hyphenation: a‧ta‧va‧que

Noun

*atavaque m (plural atavaques)

1. (music, hapax) kettledrum

   Synonym: atabal

   • c. 1344, Pedro Afonso, Count of Barcelos, “Dos gozmaães e ponços”, in Livro de Linhagens do Conde D. Pedro, volume 3; republished as Portugaliae Monumenta Historica (Scriptores; I), Lisbon: Typis Academicis, 1860, page 187:

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     [E os gritos deles e das trombas e anafiis e daltancaros e atauaques e gaitas asi reteniam que parecia que as montanhas se areygauam de todas partes.]

     And the cry of them and their buisines and trumpets and frame drums and kettledrums and fifes would resound in a way that the mountains seemed to tremble as a whole.

Usage notes

• Only attested in the plural.

Descendants

• Portuguese: atabaque
  • → English: atabaque