entabanar

Derived from tabà (“a kind of briefcase, basket or fabric bag”), variant of tabac, from Arabic طبق (“ṭābaq”). The original meaning of entabanar must have been "to enclose within a fabric bag or basket".

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ən.tə.βəˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ən.tə.bəˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [en.ta.baˈnaɾ]

entabanar (first-person singular present entabano, first-person singular preterite entabaní, past participle entabanat)

1. to cajole

   Synonym: engalipar

2. (Balearic) to smother, to suffocate

• entabanador
• entabanament

• “entabanar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “entabanar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “entabanar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• Mots catalans d'origen àrab, Joan Coromines