tabla طبلة

Moroccan Darija · noun

“tabla” (طبلة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning table (furniture).

Meanings

1. table (furniture)
2. table, chart of data

Usage

Tabla means table in the sense of a piece of furniture: a kitchen, living-room or coffee table. It is a feminine noun. With the article it is often pronounced ttebla or ttabla. One says gles f ttabla (to sit at the table) and 7ett 3la ttabla (to put on the table). For the small, low, round table on which tea is served, mida is more usual. The word can also mean a table to fill in, for example in a school context. Note: tbel, tbila, the drum, is a different word.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tabla” but also “tbla”, “tebla”, “tabbla”, “taabla” and “tablla”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find طبلة and طابلة, all the same word.

Type “tabla” on the Arabic keyboard

In Algerian Darja

The same word also exists in Algerian Darja, written طابلة, where it means “table”; “vendor's stall”: tabla in Algerian.

How to say “table” in Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian