atabal

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

• 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.

• albata, balata

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014