This article offers an etymological discussion on the relationship of the Hungarian word tábor ‘(military) camp’ (and its cognates present in a wide range of European and Asian languages) to Turkic (above all Chagatai and Ottoman) dapkur ~ tapkur ‘1. troop; 2. saddle girth; etc.’. The main reason for revisiting the etymology of Hung. tábor is the fact that the claim that its first written occurrence in appellative meaning dates back to 1383 turned out to be faulty. The latter is proved philologically in the paper. This circumstance invalidates the arguments that weakened the word’s Czech etymology (< Cz. Tábor ‘Mount Tabor’).