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)

  1. 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.

Declension

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)

  1. (originally) A camp surrounded by carts
  2. (military) battalion
  3. (military) square (body of troops in a square formation)

Descendants

  • Arabic: طَابُور (ṭābūr)
  • Armenian: թապուր (tʿapur), թաբուռ (tʿabuṙ)
  • Spanish: tabor
  • Turkish: tabur

References

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur, battalion).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tˤaː.buːr/, [tˤɑˈbuːrˤ]
  • (file)

Noun

طابور (ṭābūr) m, plural طوابير (ṭwābīr)

  1. line, queue
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