gabel
See also: Gabel
English
Etymology
From French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”).
Noun
gabel (plural gabels)
- (Britain, law, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
- Jeremy Taylor
- He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gabel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Gable, bagel, gable, galbe, gleba
Albanian
Etymology
From gabë (“lie, deception”) + -el.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɡaˈbɛl]
Noun
gabel m (indefinite plural gabelë, definite singular gabeli, definite plural gabelët)
- (derogatory, vulgar) a Gypsy, Roma
Synonyms
- rom
- magjup
- arixhi
- jevg
- evgjit
References
- Topalli, Kolec (2017), “gabel”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 518
German
Verb
gabel
- First-person singular present of gabeln.
- Imperative singular of gabeln.