tobacco

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English[edit]

tobacco plant
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Etymology[edit]

Attested since 1588, a loan from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word is either from Arabic طباق (ṭabāq, ṭubāq, a type of medicinal herb) or from Taino  (roll of tobacco leaves”[1] or “a pipe for smoking tobacco[2]). The term is thus either an Old World term (of Arabic origin) applied to a New World plant, or a New World word.[3]

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tobacco (countable and uncountable; plural tobaccos)

  1. (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
  2. (uncountable) Leaves of certain varieties of the plant cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
  3. (countable) A variety of tobacco.
    Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Las Casas, 1552
  2. ^ Oviedo, 1535
  3. ^ tobacco” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).