tabu

tabu (plural tabus)

1. Alternative spelling of taboo

• tabu search

tabu (third-person singular simple present tabus, present participle tabuing, simple past and past participle tabued)

1. Alternative spelling of taboo

• Batu, Taub, Tuba, abut, batu, buat, buta, tuba

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabu/, [ˈtʌbʊ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧bu

tábu m 

1. transition

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 57

tabu

1. rabbit

• IPA^(key): [ˈtabu]

tabu n (indeclinable)

1. taboo

tabu (indeclinable)

1. taboo

• tabu in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tabu in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• tabu in Internetová jazyková příručka

Borrowed from English taboo, Tongan tapu.

tabu

1. taboo

• “tabu” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Proto-Central-Pacific *tabu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Cognate with Maori tapu, Hawaiian kapu.

tabu

1. forbidden

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑbu/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝bu]
• Rhymes: -ɑbu
• Syllabification^(key): ta‧bu

tabu

1. taboo

• “tabu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• IPA^(key): /taˈbuː/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -uː

tabu (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. taboo

   Das ist tabu.

   That’s taboo.

• The adjective is not used attributively (for which tabuisiert or compounds with Tabu are used).

• Tabu
• tabuisieren

• “tabu” in Duden online
• “tabu” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From English taboo.[1] Ultimately from Tongan tapu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒbu]
• Hyphenation: ta‧bu

tabu

1. taboo

• tabu in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabu/
• Hyphenation: ta‧bu

tabu (first-person possessive tabuku, second-person possessive tabumu, third-person possessive tabunya)

1. taboo

• “tabu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

tabù m

1. taboo

Indeclinable.

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

tabu n (definite singular tabuet, indefinite plural tabu, definite plural tabua or tabuene)

1. taboo

• “tabu” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

tabu n (definite singular tabuet, indefinite plural tabu, definite plural tabua)

1. taboo

• “tabu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English taboo, from Tongan tapu (“prohibited”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.bu/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -abu
• Syllabification: ta‧bu

tabu n (indeclinable)

1. taboo

• tabu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tabu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ta‧bu

tabu m (plural tabus)

1. taboo (cultural inhibition or ban)

tabu (invariable)

1. taboo (culturally forbidden from use, approach or mention)

Borrowed from French tabou.

tabu n (plural tabuuri)

1. taboo

English taboo.

tabu m (Cyrillic spelling табу)

1. taboo

Ultimately from Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabu/

tabu n

1. taboo

• tabuový
• tabuizovať

• “tabu”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

tabu (n class, plural tabu)

1. Alternative form of taabu (“hardship, distress, misery, difficulty”)

Ultimately from Tongan tapu.

tabu n

1. taboo

• sexualtabu
• tabubelagd
• tabubelägga
• tabuera
• tabuföreställning
• tabuord

tabu (not comparable)

1. taboo

As adjective only used predicatively.

• tabubelagd

• tabu in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tabu in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tabu in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.bu]

tabu (Jawi تابو)

1. (transitive) to shoot, fire

   tabu si uspera ― to fire the gun

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

tabu

1. predicative singular of tab