tabak

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tabak.

• IPA^(key): /taˈbak/ [taˈbak]
• Hyphenation: ta‧bak

tabák (Basahan spelling ᜆᜊᜃ᜔)

1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) bolo (Philippine machete)

   Synonym: sundang

• toebak (dated, now dialectal)

Borrowed from Spanish tabaco.

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• IPA^(key): /taːˈbɑk/
• Hyphenation: ta‧bak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

tabak m (plural tabakken, diminutive tabakje n)

1. the tobacco plant
2. (chiefly uncountable) tobacco, the product made from leaves of certain of its varieties, to be smoked in cigars etc., sniffed or chewed
3. (obsolete) something excellent, something outstanding

• Afrikaans: tabak
• Berbice Creole Dutch: tobaku
• Jersey Dutch: tebāk
• Negerhollands: tobak, tubak
• → Caribbean Hindustani: tamáku
• → Saramaccan: tabáku
• → West Frisian: tabak

• tabák (Przemyśl)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈta.bak/
• Rhymes: -abak
• Syllabification: ta‧bak

tabak m inan

1. (dialectal) tobacco (leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing)

   Synonym: tytoń

• tabak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طباق (tabak), from Arabic طَبَق (ṭabaq).

tȁbak m inan (Cyrillic spelling та̏бак)

1. (regional) sheet of paper

• IPA^(key): [ˈtabak]

tabak m inan (relational adjective tabakový, diminutive tabačik)

1. tobacco

• “tabak”, 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, 2003–2025

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tabak. Compare Bikol Central tabak.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈbak/ [t̪ɐˈbak̚]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: ta‧bak

tabák (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊᜃ᜔)

1. cutlass; bolo (a Philippine style of machete)

   Synonyms: itak, gulok

2. hacking with such a weapon

   Synonyms: pagtabak, pagtaga, taga

3. big cut or wound made by such a weapon

   Synonym: taga

• batak, bakat, takba

Borrowed from German Tabak.

tabak

1. tobacco

   Synonym: brus

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طباق (tabak, “dish; lid, cover”), from Arabic طَبَق (ṭabaq).

• IPA^(key): /tɑˈbɑk/
• Hyphenation: ta‧bak

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tabak (definite accusative tabağı, plural tabaklar)

1. plate (the dish from which food is served or eaten)
2. dish

• → Romanian: tabac

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tabak1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Borrowed from Arabic طَبَق (ṭabaq).

• Hyphenation: ta‧bak

tabak (definite accusative tabagy, plural tabaklar)

1. plate

• “tabak” in Enedilim.com
• “tabak” in Webonary.org

tabak m

1. the tobacco plant
2. tobacco, the product made from leaves of certain of its varieties, to be smoked in cigars etc., sniffed or chewed

• tabakfȧjf f
• tabakbłīmła n

tabak (nominative plural tabaks)

1. tobacco

Borrowed from Dutch tabak, from Spanish tabaco.

tabak c (no plural)

1. tobacco

• “tabak”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011