tabor

Meanings

1. A small drum.
2. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.

1. To make (a sound) with a tabor.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.

1. A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.

1. A place name:
2. Tábor (a city in the Czech Republic).
3. A city in Slovenia.
4. A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
5. A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia, named after Tábor in Bohemia.
6. A number of places in the United States:
7. An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
8. A minor city in Fremont County and Mills County, Iowa.
9. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Polk County, Minnesota, derived from Tábor.
10. A town in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, from Tábor.
11. A surname.

1. A mountain in Israel, Mount Tabor
2. The Transfiguration of Jesus

1. Abbreviation of Taxpayer Bill of Rights.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), ultimately from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tambour and tanbur.

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