tabu

tabu (plural tabus)

1. Alternative spelling of taboo.

• tabu search

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

1. Alternative spelling of taboo.

• buat, Ṭūbā, Taub, buta, abut, tuba, Tuba, batu, Batu

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

tábu m 

1. transition

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 57

tabu

1. rabbit

• IPA^(key): [ˈtabu]

tabu n (indeclinable)

1. taboo

tabu (indeclinable)

1. taboo

• “tabu”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tabu”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “tabu”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from English taboo, Tongan tapu.

tabu n (singular definite tabuet, plural indefinite tabuer)

1. taboo

• “tabu” in Den Danske Ordbog

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu (“prohibited”).

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

tabu (genitive tabu, partitive tabu)

1. taboo

Declension of tabu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tabu	tabud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tabu
genitive			tabude
partitive		tabu	tabusid
illative		tappu tabusse	tabudesse
inessive		tabus	tabudes
elative		tabust	tabudest
allative		tabule	tabudele
adessive		tabul	tabudel
ablative		tabult	tabudelt
translative		tabuks	tabudeks
terminative		tabuni	tabudeni
essive		tabuna	tabudena
abessive		tabuta	tabudeta
comitative		tabuga	tabudega

• 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

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.

tabu

1. forbidden

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

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

tabu

1. taboo

• “tabu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /taˈbuː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uː

tabu (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. taboo

   Das ist tabu.

   That’s taboo.

   • 2019, Frozen Starfall, “Sommertrip”‎^[3]:

     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?

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

• Tabu
• tabuisieren

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

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

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

tabu

1. taboo

• tabu in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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

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

tabu (plural tabu-tabu)

1. taboo

• “tabu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

tabù m

1. taboo

Indeclinable.

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

tabu n (definite singular tabuet, indefinite plural tabu, definite plural tabua or tabuene)

1. taboo

• “tabu” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

tabu n (definite singular tabuet, indefinite plural tabu, definite plural tabua)

1. taboo

• “tabu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.bu/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -abu
• Syllabification: ta‧bu

tabu n (indeclinable)

1. taboo

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

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

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ta‧bu

tabu m (plural tabus)

1. taboo (cultural inhibition or ban)

   quebrar um tabu ― to break a taboo

   Em muitos lugares, fazer tatuagens ainda é um tabu.

   In many places, getting tattoos is still a taboo.

tabu (invariable)

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

Borrowed from French tabou.

tabu n (plural tabuuri)

1. taboo

Borrowed from English taboo.

tabu m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling табу)

1. taboo

Ultimately from Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabu/

tabu n

1. taboo

• tabuový
• tabuizovať

• “tabu”, 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

tabu class IX (plural tabu class X)

1. alternative form of taabu (“hardship, distress, misery, difficulty”)

Ultimately from Tongan tapu.

tabu n

1. taboo

tabu (not comparable)

1. taboo

As adjective only used predicatively.

• tabubelagd

• tabu in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tabu in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tabu in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.bu]

tabu (Jawi تابو)

1. (transitive) to shoot, fire

   tabu si uspera ― to fire the gun

• 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

tabu

1. predicative singular of tab