טַבְלָא I, (טבל, cmp. Aeth. טבלל to tie around, v. Ges. H. Dict.¹⁰ s. v. טְבוּלִים; cmp. טבעת, טבור) a bell or collection of bells, an instrument especially used at public processions (in Arab. drum, Gr. ταβαλά; v. Sm. Ant. s. v. Tintinnabulum as to forms and uses of bells). Targ. Koh. VII, 5 קל ט׳ וכ׳ the music of the fools. Targ. Cant. I, 1.—Sot. 49ᵇ (expl. אֵירוּס) ט׳ דחד פומא a tabla with one mouth (a single bell). Ber. 57ᵃ תלאי ט׳ וכ׳ (I dreamt) I suspended a tabla and shouted into it (differ. in Rashi). Sabb. 110ᵃ בט׳ to the sound of a tabla (at a wedding). M. Kat. 9ᵇ (prov.) בת שיתין … לקל ט׳ רהטא a woman of sixty years, like one of six, runs at the sound of the tabla (to see the procession). Y. Erub. VIII, 25ᵃ bot. אפי׳ ט׳ if even he has there a t. (which he dare not move on the Sabbath); Bab. Erub. 86ᵃ יש לו טבל.—In gen. musical instrument. Arakh. 10ᵇ, v. גּוּרְגָּנָא.