tabac
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Catalan [edit]
Noun [edit]
tabac m (plural tabacs)
Related terms [edit]
French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Spanish tabaco
Noun [edit]
tabac m (plural tabacs)
- (uncountable, botany) tobacco (any plant of the genus Nicotiana)
- Des plantations de tabac.
- leaves of certain varieties of the plant cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
- Du tabac blond.
- Pour la pipe, quels sont tes tabacs préférés ?
- (uncountable) smoking, nicotine addiction
- J’ai pris une résolution : demain, j’arrête le tabac.
- tobacconist, shop where tobacco is sold
- Il s’engouffra dans un tabac et en sortit avec un briquet.
- (idiomatic expressions) 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.
- (C'est toujours) le même tabac - c'est du même tabac.
Derived terms [edit]
Adjective [edit]
tabac m and f (invariable)
- Having the color of tobacco
- 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. (Honoré de Balzac, Œuvres diverses, t. 1, 1836)
See also [edit]
Tabac on the French Wikipedia.fr.Wikipedia
Etymology 2 [edit]
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").
Noun [edit]
tabac m (plural tabacs)
Derived terms [edit]
References [edit]
- "tabac" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From French tabac, Spanish tabaco.
Noun [edit]
tabac n
Synonyms [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Turkish tabak, from Arabic.
Noun [edit]
- tanner (one who tans hides)
Derived terms [edit]
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- Catalan nouns
- French terms derived from Spanish
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- fr:Botany
- French adjectives
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms derived from Spanish
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian terms derived from Turkish
- Romanian terms derived from Arabic