طابیه

Ottoman Turkish

طابیه

Alternative forms

• تابیه (tabya)

Etymology

From Arabic تَعْبِئَة (taʕbiʔa), vulgarly تَعْبِيَة (taʕbiya, “mobilization, arrangement”), verbal noun of عَبَّأَ (ʕabbaʔa) respectively ‎عَبَّى‎ (ʕabbā).

Noun

طابیه • (tabya)

1. redoubt, an enclosed, defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks
2. bastion, bulwark, any defensive structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification

Derived terms

• آی طابیه (ay tabya, “demilune”)
• اوق طابیه (ok tabya, “redan”)
• طوپراق طابیه (toprak tabya, “earth fort”)
• منشاری طابیه (minşarî tabya, “crémaillère”)
• یارم طابیه (yarım tabya, “demilune”)
• یلدز طابیه (yıldız tabya, “star-shaped fortress”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tabya
• → Albanian: tabje
• → Armenian: թապյա (tʻapya)
• → Romanian: tabie

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tabya”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4524
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طابیه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 308a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طابیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 787
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Propugnaculum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1387
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طابیه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3062
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tabya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طابیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1218