tavla

/teɪvlɑː/

Etymology

From Turkish tavla, from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula. Doublet of table and tabula.

noun

  1. A version of the board game backgammon played widely in Turkey and other countries of the region.“1978, Past the tavern and hear the joggle of tavlas — Lawrence Durrell, in a 1977 interview published in Listener, 1978, and reprinted in Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, 1998 (see p.174)”