also tabour, "small drum resembling a tamborine," c. 1300, from Old French tabour, tabur "drum; din, noise, commotion" (11c.), probably from Persian tabir "drum;" compare tambourine.

The earlier name of the drum; in later use (esp. since the introduction of the name drum in the 16th c., A small kind of drum, used chiefly as an accompaniment to the pipe or trumpet .... [OED 2nd ed., 1989]

Also in Middle English as a verb, "beat a drum" (late 14c.). Taborner "drummer" is attested from late 13c. as a surname. Middle English had tabortete "a small drum."

style of carpet or rug, by 1900, from the name of the city in northwest Iran.

"one who tabulates," 1848, agent noun in Latin form from tabulate. Also "a maker of statistical tables;" also in mechanical computation (1892).

"act or process of making tabular arrangements," 1803, noun of action from tabulate (v.). Latin tabulationem meant "a flooring over." Tabularization (1853) seems to be mostly a dictionary word.

"put into form of a table, collect or arrange in columns," 1734, from Latin tabula (see table (n.)) + -ate (2). Earlier in a more literal sense, "give a flat surface to, lay a floor" (Blount, 1650s). Related: Tabulated; tabulating.

1650s, "table-shaped," from French tabulaire or directly from Latin tabularis "of a slab or tablet, of boards or planks," from tabula "slab" (see table (n.)). The meaning "arranged in a list or columns; ascertained or computed by means of tables" is from 1710.

"the mind in its primary state," 1530s, from Latin tabula rasa, literally "scraped tablet," from which writing has been erased, thus "blank and ready to be written on," from tabula (see table (n.)) + rasa, fem. past participle of radere "to scrape away, erase" (see raze (v.)).

A loan-translation of Aristotle's pinakis agraphos, literally "unwritten tablet" ("De anima," 7.22). Compare modern colloquial blank slate, etc. in similar senses.

"be silent!" Latin imperative of tacere "to be silent" (see tacit). The expression Tace is Latin for candle (1690s) was "a humorously veiled hint to any one to keep silent about something" [OED, 2nd ed. print, 1989].

musical instruction indicating silence of an instrument or voice, 1724, from Latin tacet "is silent," third person singular present indicative of tacere "be silent" (see tacit).

word-forming element of Greek origin, used from mid-19c. and meaning "rapid, swift, fast," from Latinized combining form of Greek takhys "swift, rapid, hasty," related to takhos "speed, swiftness," a word of uncertain origin (Beekes: "The etymology remains unclear.").