atabal
Spanish, noun/ataˈbal/
atabal is spelled A-T-A-B-A-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written Spanish, the 206,423rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atabal is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “atabal (kind of tabor used by the Moors)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Instrumento de percusión, especie de tambor de origen árabe, compuesto por dos timbales de diferentes…”.
What does atabal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineatabal (kind of tabor used by the Moors)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrumento de percusión, especie de tambor de origen árabe, compuesto por dos timbales de diferentes dimensiones, que se toca con baquetas. 2. Atabalero.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of atabal
- atabales plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atabal?
- /ataˈbal/
- [a.t̪aˈβ̞al]
- [at̪aˈβ̞al]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is atabal in Spanish?
atabal appears about once in every 33 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).