tabla طابلة
Algerian Darja · noun
“tabla” (طابلة) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning table.
Meanings
- table
- vendor's stall
Usage
Ṭabla is the usual word for a table, especially a coffee table or dining table: ḥeṭ ṭabla (set the table). The plural is ṭwabel. A second, very lively sense is the small stall of a street or market vendor: dir ṭabla means to set up a small street business, to sell from a stall. Ṭabla is also used for a display table. The word is everyday register and offends no one. For a table as a work or desk piece of furniture, you also hear biro.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tabla” but also “6abla”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 6 is emphatic ta (ط).
Type “tabla” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
The same word also exists in Moroccan Darija, written طبلة, where it means “table (furniture)”; “table, chart of data”: tabla in Moroccan.