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طَبْل
drum /ˈtˤabl/
nounB2#4270 most common
Also: large drum
Example sentences
هَذَا طَبْلٌ.
This is a drum.
يَضْرِبُ الوَلَدُ الطَبْلَ.
The boy beats the drum.
سَمِعْتُ صَوْتَ الطَبْلِ مِنْ بَعِيدٍ.
I heard the sound of the drum from afar.
يُسْتَخْدَمُ الطَبْلُ فِي كَثِيرٍ مِنَ الاحْتِفَالَاتِ الشَّعْبِيَّةِ.
The drum is used in many folk celebrations.
كَانَ إِيقَاعُ الطَبْلِ يَتَرَدَّدُ فِي أَرْجَاءِ السَّاحَةِ حَتَّى مُنْتَصَفِ اللَّيْلِ.
The drum's rhythm echoed through the square until midnight.
لَا يَخْلُو مَوْكِبُ العُرْسِ التَّقْلِيدِيُّ مِنْ قَرْعِ الطُّبُولِ الَّذِي يُؤْذِنُ بِوُصُولِ العَرُوسَيْنِ.
A traditional wedding procession never lacks the beating of drums that announces the arrival of the bride and groom.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | طَبْلٌ | طُبُولٌ |
| Genitive | طَبْلٍ | طُبُولٍ |
| Accusative | طَبْلًا | طُبُولًا |
| Vocative | يَا طَبْلُ | يَا طُبُولُ |
Word family
طَبَّالdrummer
طَبْطَبَto tap or drum repeatedly
طَبْلَةsmall hand drum (tabla-type)
تَطْبِيلdrumming; figuratively, excessive praise or hype
طَبَّلَto drum; figuratively, to hype someone up
Etymology
Ṭabl comes from a Semitic triliteral root ط ب ل that names the drum and the act of drumming. Some scholars view it as echoic, mimicking the low thud of a struck skin. The word spread beyond Arabic through trade and empire: Persian and Ottoman Turkish both borrowed forms of it, and it reached South Asia as the name of the tabla drum. It has no Indo-European root, since Arabic is a Semitic language.
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