Tabor

See also: tabor, tábor, and Tábor

English

Etymology 1

German Tabor, from Czech tábor (“camp”).

Proper noun

Tabor

1. A place name:
   1. Tábor (a city in the Czech Republic)
   2. A city in Slovenia
   3. A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
   4. A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia, named after Tábor in Bohemia.
   5. A number of places in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
      2. A minor city in Fremont County and Mills County, Iowa.
      3. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Polk County, Minnesota, derived from Tábor.
      4. A town in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, from Tábor.
2. A surname.

Etymology 2

Biblical Hebrew תָּבוֹר (Tāḇôr), of uncertain origin.

Alternative forms

• Thabor

Proper noun

Tabor

Tabor

1. A mountain in Israel, Mount Tabor
2. (Christianity, metonymically) The Transfiguration of Jesus

   the light of Tabor

Derived terms

• Taboric

Translations

mountain

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: Թափոր (Tʻapʻor)

• Czech: Tábor (cs) m
• German: Tabor (de) m
• Greek: Θαβώρ (el) n (Thavór)

  Ancient Greek: Θαβώρ n (Thabṓr)

• Hebrew: תבור f
• Italian: Tabor m
• Latin: Tabor n, Thabor n
• Polish: Tabor (pl) m
• Portuguese: Tabor
• Slovak: Tábor m
• Spanish: Tabor m

Anagrams

• Barot, Barto, Bator, ORBAT, Tobar, Torba, abort, boart, rabot

Polish

Góra Tabor

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.bɔr/
• Rhymes: -abɔr
• Syllabification: Ta‧bor
• Homophone: tabor

Etymology 1

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Proper noun

Tabor m inan

1. Tabor (a village in the Gmina of Celestynów, Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
2. Tabor (a left tributary of the Wisłok in Poland)

Declension

Declension of Tabor

	singular
nominative	Tabor
genitive	Taboru
dative	Taborowi
accusative	Tabor
instrumental	Taborem
locative	Taborze
vocative	Taborze

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew תָּבוֹר.

Proper noun

Tabor m inan

1. Tabor (large hill of Biblical significance in Lower Galilee, Northern Israel at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley)

Declension

Declension of Tabor

	singular
nominative	Tabor
genitive	Taboru
dative	Taborowi
accusative	Tabor
instrumental	Taborem
locative	Taborze
vocative	Taborze

Etymology 3

From tabor.

Proper noun

Tabor m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Tabor

	singular	plural
nominative	Tabor	Taborowie
genitive	Tabora	Taborów
dative	Taborowi	Taborom
accusative	Tabora	Taborów
instrumental	Taborem	Taborami
locative	Taborze	Taborach
vocative	Taborze	Taborowie

Proper noun

Tabor f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

Further reading

• Tabor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Tabor in PWN's encyclopedia
• “Tabor”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022