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tabor¹
- /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/
Rhymes with -eɪbə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
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.
noun tabors
- A small drum.
- 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. Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […]
verb tabors · taboring · tabored
- To make (a sound) with a tabor.
- To strike lightly and frequently.
tabor²
- /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/
Rhymes with -eɪbə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).
noun tabors
- A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources. A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.
Tabor³
Where it comes from
From German Tabor, from Czech tábor (“camp”).
proper noun
- Tábor (a city in the Czech Republic).
- A city in Slovenia.
- A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
- A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia, named after Tábor in Bohemia.
- An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
- A minor city in Fremont County and Mills County, Iowa.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Polk County, Minnesota, derived from Tábor.
- A town in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, from Tábor.
- A surname.
Tabor⁴
Where it comes from
From Biblical Hebrew תָּבוֹר (Tāḇôr), of uncertain origin.
proper noun Thabor
- A mountain in Israel, Mount Tabor
- The Transfiguration of Jesus the light of Tabor
TABOR⁵
proper noun
- Abbreviation of Taxpayer Bill of Rights "I believe citizens of every community have the right to determine what's right for them," he said. "I don't think TABOR is a one-size fix. TABOR doesn't allow a community to determine where their future is going to go."
Translations
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title = {tabor},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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