English[edit]
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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]
Pronunciation[edit]
tobacco (countable and uncountable; plural tobaccos)
- (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
- (uncountable) Leaves of certain varieties of the plant cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
- (countable) A variety of tobacco.
- Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.
Translations[edit]
any plant of the genus Nicotiana
leaves of certain varieties of tobacco plant
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- Kyrgyz: тамеки (ky) (tameki)
- Lao: ຢາສູບ (lo) (yàːsȕːp)
- Latin: tabacum (la) n
- Latvian: tabaka (lv)
- Lithuanian: tabakas (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Tubak (lb) m
- Macedonian: тутун (mk) (tútun) m
- Malagasy: kisoka (mg), paraky (mg), tabaka (mg)
- Malay: tembakau (ms)
- Malayalam: പുകയില (ml) (pukayil)
- Maltese: tabakk (mt) m
- Maléku Jaíka: túa
- Mohawk: oién:kwa'
- Mongolian: тамхи (mn) (tamhi)
- Nahuatl: piciyetl (nah)
- Classical: piciyetl
- Navajo: nátʼoh
- Norwegian: tobakk (no)
- Persian: تنباکو (fa) (tanbâko)
- Pirahã: tíhi
- Polish: tytoń (pl) m, tabaka (pl) f
- Portuguese: tabaco (pt) m
- Romanian: tutun (ro) m and f, tabac (ro) n
- Russian: табак (ru) (tabák) m
- Scottish Gaelic: tombaca (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: (Bosnian, Serbian) дуван (sh) m, (Croatian) духан (sh) m
- Roman: (Bosnian, Serbian) duvan (sh) m, (Croatian) duhan (sh) m
- Slovak: tabak (sk) m
- Slovene: tobak (sl) m
- Spanish: tabaco (es) m
- Swahili: hamamu (sw), tumbako (sw), tobaccos (sw), mtumbako (sw)
- Swedish: tobak (sv)
- Tagalog: tabako (tl)
- Taino: tabacu'
- Tamil: புகையிலை (ta) (pukaiyilai)
- Tatar: төтен (tt) (töten)
- Telugu: పొగాకు (te) (pogāku), పొగాకు (te) (tobako)
- Thai: ยาสูบ (th) (yaa sòop)
- Turkish: tütün (tr)
- Tuvan: таакпы (taakpy)
- Ukrainian: тютюн (uk) (tjutjún) m
- Urdu: تمباکو (ur) (tambākū) m
- Vietnamese: thuốc lá (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
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- West Frisian: tabak (fy)
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Las Casas, 1552
- ^ Oviedo, 1535
- ^ “tobacco” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).