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tavla

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English

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Etymology

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From Turkish tavla, from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula. Doublet of table and tabula.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tavla (usually uncountable, plural tavlas)

  1. (backgammon) A version of the board game backgammon played widely in Turkey and other countries of the region.
    • 1978, Past the tavern and hear the joggle of tavlasLawrence Durrell, in a 1977 interview published in Listener, 1978, and reprinted in Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, 1998 (see p.174)

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Italiot Greek

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

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tavla f

  1. table

Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sicilian tàvula. Doublet of tavola.

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Noun

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tavla f (plural twavel, paucal tavliet)

  1. plank, board
  2. draughts, checkers
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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tavla f

  1. definite feminine singular of tavle

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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tavla f

  1. definite singular of tavle

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طاوله (tavla), تاوله (tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

Noun

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tàvla f (Cyrillic spelling та̀вла)

  1. tavla
  2. (backgammon, regional) backgammon
    Synonym: triktrȁk

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Latin tabula via German Tafel.

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Noun

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tavla c

  1. (art) a painting; piece of painted canvas
  2. a picture hanging on a wall
  3. a hard, flat surface for writing or drawing, for example a blackboard (svarta tavlan) or whiteboard
  4. a tablet
  5. (colloquial) A glaring mistake, a blunder

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Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طبله (tabla), تاوله (tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula. Doublet of tablo.

Noun

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tavla (definite accusative tavlayı, plural tavlalar)

  1. tavla
  2. (backgammon) backgammon

Inflection

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Inflection
Nominative tavla
Definite accusative tavlayı
Singular Plural
Nominative tavla tavlalar
Definite accusative tavlayı tavlaları
Dative tavlaya tavlalara
Locative tavlada tavlalarda
Ablative tavladan tavlalardan
Genitive tavlanın tavlaların