Usage examples (33)

• The term tabla is derived from an Arabic word, tabl, which simply means "drum."
• In addition to the instrument itself, the term tabla is often used in reference to this knowledge and the process of its transmission.
• Mukta is the first-call tabla-maker to provide the instrument for Ustad Zakir Hussain when he is in town.
• His bands moved between the Asian drum called a tabla and Western instruments like the accordion, and he sang of love, explicitly.