tahúr

From Old Spanish tafur, from Arabic تَكْفُور‎ (takfūr, “Armenian king”), from Middle Armenian թագւոր (tʿagwor, “king”), from Old Armenian թագաւոր (tʿagawor, “king”), from Parthian *tag(a)-bar (“king”, literally “crown bearing”). The first part goes back to Proto-Indo-European *teg-, the second part goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Galician tafur, Portuguese taful and Turkish tekfur.

• IPA^(key): /taˈuɾ/ [t̪aˈuɾ]
• Rhymes: -uɾ
• Syllabification: ta‧húr

tahúr m (plural tahúres)

1. gambler
2. cardshark

• “tahúr”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014