طابور
Arabic
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur, “battalion”) and extended in sense.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tˤaː.buːr/
Noun
طَابُور • (ṭābūr) m (plural طَوَابِير (ṭawābīr))
- line, row, file, queue, column
- 2016 September 25, “بالصور.. وزير التعليم يحضر طابور الصباح في مدرسة كلية النصر”, in أَهْل مَصْر (ʔahl maṣr):
- وطلبت مديرية المدرسة من الطلاب أثناء الطابور تحية الوزير عن طريق السباعية.
- And the school directorate demanded from the pupils in the row to greet the minister in groups of seven.
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Declension
Declension of noun طَابُور (ṭābūr)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | طَابُور ṭābūr | الطَّابُور aṭ-ṭābūr | طَابُور ṭābūr |
| Nominative | طَابُورٌ ṭābūrun | الطَّابُورُ aṭ-ṭābūru | طَابُورُ ṭābūru |
| Accusative | طَابُورًا ṭābūran | الطَّابُورَ aṭ-ṭābūra | طَابُورَ ṭābūra |
| Genitive | طَابُورٍ ṭābūrin | الطَّابُورِ aṭ-ṭābūri | طَابُورِ ṭābūri |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | طَابُورَيْن ṭābūrayn | الطَّابُورَيْن aṭ-ṭābūrayn | طَابُورَيْ ṭābūray |
| Nominative | طَابُورَانِ ṭābūrāni | الطَّابُورَانِ aṭ-ṭābūrāni | طَابُورَا ṭābūrā |
| Accusative | طَابُورَيْنِ ṭābūrayni | الطَّابُورَيْنِ aṭ-ṭābūrayni | طَابُورَيْ ṭābūray |
| Genitive | طَابُورَيْنِ ṭābūrayni | الطَّابُورَيْنِ aṭ-ṭābūrayni | طَابُورَيْ ṭābūray |
| Plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | طَوَابِير ṭawābīr | الطَّوَابِير aṭ-ṭawābīr | طَوَابِير ṭawābīr |
| Nominative | طَوَابِيرُ ṭawābīru | الطَّوَابِيرُ aṭ-ṭawābīru | طَوَابِيرُ ṭawābīru |
| Accusative | طَوَابِيرَ ṭawābīra | الطَّوَابِيرَ aṭ-ṭawābīra | طَوَابِيرَ ṭawābīra |
| Genitive | طَوَابِيرَ ṭawābīra | الطَّوَابِيرِ aṭ-ṭawābīri | طَوَابِيرِ ṭawābīri |
References
- Procházka, Stephan (2004), “The Turkish Contribution to the Arabic Lexicon”, in Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197
- Vollers, Karl (1897), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 51, page 308
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Cognate with Crimean Tatar tabur (“battalion”), Chagatai [script needed] (tapkur, “fortification”), [script needed] (tabɣur, “belt, fence”).
Compare the Turkic borrowings: Czech tábor, Slovak tábor, Polish tabor, Serbo-Croatian tȃbor / та̑бор, Bulgarian табор (tabor), Old East Slavic та́бар (tábar, “Turkish camp”), Russian та́бор (tábor), dialectal та́бырь (tábyrʹ, “herd of reindeer”), Ukrainian та́бір (tábir), Hungarian tábor, Romanian tabără, English tabor. Has also been compared to Old Armenian թափօր (tʿapʿōr, “religious procession”).
Noun
طابور • (tabur)
- (originally) A camp surrounded by carts
- (military) battalion
- (military) square (body of troops in a square formation)
Descendants
- Arabic: طَابُور (ṭābūr)
- Armenian: թապուր (tʿapur), թաբուռ (tʿabuṙ)
- Spanish: tabor
- Turkish: tabur
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), “թապուր”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 119
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طابور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 787b
- Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1974, page 156a
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طابور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1218
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “табор”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress, pages 6–7
South Levantine Arabic
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur, “battalion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tˤaː.buːr/, [tˤɑˈbuːrˤ]
Audio (Ramallah) (file)
Noun
طابور • (ṭābūr) m (plural طوابير (ṭwābīr))
- line, queue