Tāḷa¹

beating, striking, the thing beaten or struck i.e. a musical instrument which is beaten, an instr. of percussion, as a cymbal, gong, or tambourine (for tāḷa gong cp. thāla):

1. gong, etc. Ja.i.3; Ja.vi.60; Thag.893; DN-a.i.85; Dhs-a.319 (kaṃsa˚)
2. music in general Dhp-a.iv.67.

• -āvacara musical time or measure, music, a musician DN.ii.159 (variant reading tāla˚); Ja.i.60 (l); Ja.iv.41; Vv-a.257 (˚parivuta, of an angel).

taḍ cp. Sk. tāla a blow, or musical time; tālīyaka cymbal

Tāḷa²

neuter [Sk. tālaka = tāḍa Avs.ii.56, tāḍaka Divy.577] a key (orig. a “knocker”?) Vin.ii.148 (3 kinds loha˚, kaṭṭha˚, visāṇa˚); Bdhd 1.

• -cchiggala a key-hole SN.iv.290; SN.v.453; Vism.500
• -cchidda id. Vin.ii.120, Vin.ii.148, Vin.ii.153 (all tāla˚); Vin.iii.118; Dhp-a.iii.8 (l).