Tabela is an Indian English term, used particularly in South Asian contexts, referring to a stable or livestock shed — a structure housing horses, cows, or other working animals. It is a borrowing from Portuguese or a related Indo-Portuguese linguistic influence from the colonial period. In Indian English it sits in the everyday practical vocabulary of farming and property, more common in older usage or rural contexts. Rarely used in urban Indian English today outside of specific regional or traditional settings.
The old tabela at the edge of the village had been converted into a small guesthouse.
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(India) stable or shed (for horses, cows, etc.).
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