tabu

See also: Tabu, tabú, tabù, and tabū

English

Noun

tabu (plural tabus)

  1. Alternative spelling of taboo

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): /ˈtʌbu/
  • 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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtabu]

Noun

tabu n

  1. taboo

Further reading

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

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English taboo, Tongan tapu.

Noun

tabu

  1. taboo

Declension

References


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

Etymology

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tabu

  1. taboo

Declension

Inflection of tabu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative tabu tabut
genitive tabun tabujen
partitive tabua tabuja
illative tabuun tabuihin
singular plural
nominative tabu tabut
accusative nom. tabu tabut
gen. tabun
genitive tabun tabujen
partitive tabua tabuja
inessive tabussa tabuissa
elative tabusta tabuista
illative tabuun tabuihin
adessive tabulla tabuilla
ablative tabulta tabuilta
allative tabulle tabuille
essive tabuna tabuina
translative tabuksi tabuiksi
instructive tabuin
abessive tabutta tabuitta
comitative tabuineen
Possessive forms of tabu (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person tabuni tabumme
2nd person tabusi tabunne
3rd person tabunsa

Compounds


German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taˈbuː/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uː

Adjective

tabu (indeclinable, predicative only)

  1. taboo
    Das ist tabu.
    That’s taboo.

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

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tabu

  1. taboo

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tabu tabuk
accusative tabut tabukat
dative tabunak tabuknak
instrumental tabuval tabukkal
causal-final tabuért tabukért
translative tabuvá tabukká
terminative tabuig tabukig
essive-formal tabuként tabukként
essive-modal
inessive tabuban tabukban
superessive tabun tabukon
adessive tabunál tabuknál
illative tabuba tabukba
sublative tabura tabukra
allative tabuhoz tabukhoz
elative tabuból tabukból
delative taburól tabukról
ablative tabutól tabuktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
tabué tabuké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
tabuéi tabukéi
Possessive forms of tabu
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tabum tabuim
2nd person sing. tabud tabuid
3rd person sing. tabuja tabui
1st person plural tabunk tabuink
2nd person plural tabutok tabuitok
3rd person plural tabujuk tabuik

References

  1. tabu in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. taboo

Derived terms

  • menabukan

Further reading


Lithuanian

Etymology

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

Noun

tabù m

  1. taboo

Declension

Indeclinable.


Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.bu/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -abu
  • Syllabification: ta‧bu

Noun

tabu n (indeclinable)

  1. taboo

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: ta‧bu

Noun

tabu m (plural tabus)

  1. taboo (cultural inhibition or ban)

Adjective

tabu (invariable)

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French tabou.

Noun

tabu n (plural tabuuri)

  1. taboo

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

English taboo.

Noun

tabu m (Cyrillic spelling табу)

  1. taboo

Slovak

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtabu/

Noun

tabu n

  1. taboo
  • tabuový
  • tabuizovať

References

  • tabu in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Tongan tapu.

Noun

tabu n

  1. taboo

Declension

Declension of tabu 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tabu tabut tabun tabuna
Genitive tabus tabuts tabuns tabunas

Derived terms

Adjective

tabu (not comparable)

  1. taboo

Usage notes

As adjective only used predicatively.

Synonyms

References


Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈta.bu]

Verb

tabu (Jawi تابو)

  1. (transitive) to shoot, fire
    tabu si usperato fire the gun

Conjugation

Conjugation of tabu
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totabu fotabu mitabu
2nd notabu nitabu
3rd Masculine otabu itabu, yotabu
Feminine motabu
Neuter itabu
- archaic

References

  • 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

Volapük

Noun

tabu

  1. predicative singular of tab
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