gabel

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪbəl/

A form of gavel (“rent, tax”) influenced by Middle French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”).

gabel (plural gabels)

1. (law, obsolete) Any rent, charge, tribute, custom, tax, duty, excise etc.
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:

     He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.

   • 1662, A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions, chapter VI:

     The same Imposition might also be made on the Tin spent at home, unless it be as impossible so to do, as for the King of France to impose the Gabel upon Salt in the very places where it is made.

   • 1674, Procopius (original), unknown translator, Secret History:

     These Mercenary Officers who had no greater desire, than to demonstrate to the Emperor their Zeal and affection to his service, serewed and ra­vished from the Mariners by violence, illegal and unaccustomed Gabels upon all sorts of Com­modities.

gabel (plural gabels)

1. Obsolete spelling of gable

• “gabel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Gable, Gebal, bagel, gable, galbe, gleba

From gabë (“lie, deception”) +‎ -el (suffix).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ɡaˈbɛl]

gabel m (plural gabelë, definite gabeli, definite plural gabelët)

1. (derogatory, vulgar) a Gypsy, Roma

• rom
• magjup
• arixhi
• jevg
• evgjit

gàbel

1. plural of gabala
2. dative singular of gabala

gabel

1. inflection of gabeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

gabel

1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of gavel

From Middle High German gabel, gabele, from Old High German gabala, from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”). Cognate with German Gabel.

gabel f

1. fork

• “gabel” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy., p. 29