atabal

Borrowed from Spanish atabal, from Arabic الطَّبْل (aṭ-ṭabl, “drum”), طَبَلَ (ṭabala, “to drum”). Compare tabor, tymbal, tabla, davul.

• IPA^(key): /ˈætəbɑːl/

atabal (plural atabals)

1. A kettledrum; a kind of tabor used by the Moors.
   • 1816, George Croly, Czerni George:

     The night was wild, the atabal / Scarce echoed on the rampart wall.

   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:

     the trump, the gong, and the atabal. (III, xx)

• albata, balata

• altabal (Riosa)
• tabal (Eastern Asturias)
• atabalu (archaic)

Borrowed from Arabic الطَّبْل (aṭ-ṭabl, “drum”), طَبَلَ (ṭabala, “to drum”)

• IPA^(key): /ataˈbal/ [a.t̪aˈβ̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: a‧ta‧bal

atabal m (plural atabales)

1. barrel (specially one used to store fish)

   Synonym: tonel

2. (in the plural) luggage, belongings, stuff

   Marchó de casa llenu d’atabales

   He/She left home loaded with luggage

• andar colos atabales

• “atabal” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

Borrowed from Arabic الطَّبْل (aṭ-ṭabl, “drum”), طَبَلَ (ṭabala, “to drum”).

• IPA^(key): /ataˈbal/ [a.t̪aˈβ̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: a‧ta‧bal

atabal m (plural atabales)

1. atabal (kind of tabor used by the Moors)

• → English: atabal

• “atabal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024