Made in Arabic
tabla
الطَّبْلة
A goblet-shaped drum from Syria, with a clay body and a skin head, played with the fingers and the palm, and called the darabukka, and in Egypt the ṭabla. Arabic ṭabla became Hindi tablā, the name of the Indian drum played with the fingers, and from Hindi English took tabla.
- Instrument
- a darabukka drum of clay and skin, Syria, late 19th century
The path between languagesṭabla → tablā → tabla
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ملكٌ عامّ
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