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See also: Tabu, tábu, tabú, tabù, and tabū

English

Noun

tabu (plural tabus)

  1. Alternative spelling of taboo.

Derived terms

Verb

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

  1. Alternative spelling of taboo.

Anagrams

Afar

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tábu m 

  1. transition

References

  • 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

Comanche

Noun

tabu

  1. rabbit

Czech

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Pronunciation

Noun

tabu n (indeclinable)

  1. taboo

Adjective

tabu (indeclinable)

  1. taboo

Further reading

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Danish

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Etymology

Borrowed from English taboo, Tongan tapu.

Noun

tabu n (singular definite tabuet, plural indefinite tabuer)

  1. taboo

Declension

More information neuter gender, singular ...

References

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Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu (prohibited).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑb̥u/, [ˈtɑb̥u]
  • Rhymes: -ɑbu
  • Hyphenation: ta‧bu

Noun

tabu (genitive tabu, partitive tabu)

  1. taboo

Declension

More information Declension of (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation), singular ...

Derived terms

  • tabuline
  • tabustama

Compounds

  • tabusõna
  • tabuteema

References

  • tabu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • tabu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • tabu”, in [VSL] Võõrsõnade leksikon [Lexicon of Foreign Words] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
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Fijian

Etymology

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.

Adjective

tabu

  1. forbidden

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tabu

  1. taboo

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

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German

Pronunciation

Adjective

tabu (indeclinable, predicative only)

  1. taboo
    Das ist tabu.
    That’s taboo.
    • 2019, Frozen Starfall, “Sommertrip”:
      Doch nun ist es zu heiß, um irgendwas zu tun
      Für mich ist Sommersonne wohl tabu
      Ich glaub, ich fange an zu schmelzen wie ein Wassereis
      Was nur findet ihr an dieser Jahreszeit?
      But now it's way too hot to do anything
      Summer sun seems to be taboo for me
      I think I'm starting to melt like an ice pop
      What do you guys even like about this season?

Usage notes

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

Further reading

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

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