tabac

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /təˈbak/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /taˈbak/

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tabac m (plural tabacs)

1. tobacco

• IPA^(key): /ta.ba/

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From Spanish tabaco.

tabac m (plural tabacs)

1. (uncountable, botany) tobacco (any plant of the genus Nicotiana)

   des plantations de tabac ― tobacco plantations.

2. tobacco (leaves of certain varieties of the plant cultivated and harvested)

   du tabac blond ― blond tobacco

   Pour la pipe, quels sont tes tabacs préférés ?

   For the pipe, what are your favorite tobaccos?

3. (uncountable, with le) smoking, nicotine addiction

   J’ai pris une résolution : demain, j’arrête le tabac.

   I have made a decision: tomorrow I'm quitting tobacco.

4. tobacconist (shop where tobacco is sold)

   Synonyms: bureau de tabac, débit de tabac

   Il s’engouffra dans un tabac et en sortit avec un briquet.

   He rushed into a tobacconist's and came out with a lighter.

5. (figurative) thing, stuff

   (c'est toujours) le même tabac – c'est du même tabac.

   (it's always) the same thing – it's the same old stuff.

tabac (invariable)

1. having the color of tobacco
   • 1836, Honoré de Balzac, Œuvres diverses, volume 1:

     Voyez quel air martial respire ce vénérable membre de la Garde nationale! Avec son habit tabac, son sabre et sa giberne en bandoulière, son fusil sur l'épaule […] il va affronter les ennemis […] de la tranquillité publique.

     See what martial air this venerable member of the National Guard breathes! With his tobacco-coloured coat, his sword and his pouch on a bandolier, his gun on his shoulder […] he will face the enemies […] of public peace.

• tabac on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

From tabasser; itself from a radical *tab ("hit"). Tabac is more or less the equivalent of tapage; compare tabasser and taper.

The "correct" spelling should have been *tabas as tracasser and tracas, fracasser and fracas, the -ac spelling being influenced by the frequent noun tabac (“plant”).

tabac m (plural tabacs)

1. violent fight

   Il va y avoir du tabac ce soir !

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• “tabac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

tabac m (plural tabacs)

1. tobacco

Borrowed from French tabac, from Spanish tabaco, either from Arabic or from Taíno. See English tobacco for more.

tabac n (uncountable)

1. tobacco

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طبق‎ (tabak).

tabac m (plural tabaci)

1. tanner (one who tans hides)

• tăbăci