tabor
tabor Lexical Profile
tabor Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A small drum, typically played with one hand while the other hand plays a small pipe or fife, popular in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
"The minstrel entertained the royal court by simultaneously playing a lively melody on a wooden pipe and keeping the rhythm on his tabor."
• verb
To play on a tabor or similar small drum.
"The musicians tabored cheerfully as the villagers danced around the festival fire."
To beat or strike something lightly and rhythmically, resembling the sound of a small drum.
"Heavy raindrops tabored against the windowpanes throughout the stormy night."
• Rhymes for tabor
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English 'tabur', from Old French 'tabour', ultimately of Persian or Arabic origin (such as Persian 'tabīr' or Arabic 'ṭabbūr'), referring to a drum.
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