The story
- Arabic · derived fromالطَّبْل“drum”
- Spanish · borrowed fromatabal
- English todayatabal
Borrowed from Spanish atabal, from Arabic الطَّبْل (aṭ-ṭabl, “drum”), طَبَلَ (ṭabala, “to drum”). Compare tabor, tymbal, tabla, davul.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.