Tobacco plant
Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco . The Spanish word could be from Arabic طُبَّاق ( ṭubbāq , “ Dittrichia viscosa ” ) or from a Caribbean language such as Kari'na or Taíno or multiple of them, from a word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves"[ 1] or "a pipe for smoking tobacco," such as tabago ( “ tube for inhaling smoke or powdered intoxicating plants ” ) .[ 2]
tobacco (countable and uncountable , plural tobaccos or tobaccoes )
( uncountable ) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana .
( uncountable ) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes , cigars , snuff , for smoking in pipes or for chewing .
2013 September 7, “Unlucky strike ”, in The Economist , volume 408 , number 8852 :Tobacco -settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.
( countable ) A variety of tobacco.
Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.
any plant of the genus Nicotiana
Abenaki: wdamô
Abkhaz: аҭаҭын ( atatən )
Acehnese: bakông
Adyghe: тутын ( tutən )
Albanian: duhan (sq) m
Amharic: ትምባሆ ( təmbaho ) , ትንባሆ ( tənbaho )
Arabic: تِبْغ m ( tibḡ ) , تَبْغ m ( tabḡ ) , دُخَان m ( duḵān ) , دُخَّان m ( duḵḵān ) , تُمْبَك m ( tumbak )
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: ծխախոտ (hy) ( cxaxot )
Assamese: ধঁপাত ( dhõpat )
Asturian: tabacu m
Avar: тамахьо ( tamax̂o )
Azerbaijani: tütün (az) , tənbəki
Bashkir: тәмәке ( təməke )
Belarusian: ты́тунь m ( týtunʹ )
Bengali: তামাক (bn) ( tamak )
Breton: butun (br) m
Bulgarian: тютю́н (bg) m ( tjutjún )
Burmese: ဆေး (my) ( hce: )
Buryat: тамхи ( tamxi )
Cahuilla: pivat
Catalan: tabac (ca) m
Catawba: umpa
Central Melanau: tebakau
Chechen: тонка ( tonka )
Cherokee: ᏦᎳ ( tsola )
Chichewa: fodya
Chickasaw: chomak
Chinese:
Cantonese: 煙草 / 烟草 ( jin1 cou2 )
Dungan: хуон-ян ( huon-i͡an ) , хан-ян ( han-i͡an )
Hokkien: 薰草 (zh-min-nan) ( hun-chháu ) , 煙草 / 烟草 ( ian-chháu )
Mandarin: 煙草 / 烟草 (zh) ( yāncǎo )
Teochew: 薰草 ( hung1 cao2 )
Wu: 煙草 / 烟草 ( 1 i-tshau)
Coptic: ⲭⲣⲉⲙⲧⲥ ( khremts )
Corsican: tabaccu m , tavaccu m
Crimean Tatar: tütün
Czech: tabák (cs) m
Danish: tobak (da) c
Dutch: tabak (nl) m , tabaksplant (nl) f
Esperanto: tabako
Estonian: tubakas (et)
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: tubbak n
Finnish: tupakka (fi) , tupakkakasvi
French: tabac (fr) m
Friulian: tabac m
Galician: tabaco (gl) m
German: Tabak (de) m , Tabakpflanze (de) f
Greek: καπνός (el) m ( kapnós ) , νικοτιανή f ( nikotianí )
Guaraní: petỹ
Gujarati: તમાકુ ( tamāku )
Hebrew: טַבָּק (he) m ( tabák )
Hindi: तम्बाकू (hi) m ( tambākū ) , सुलफ़ा ( sulfā )
Hungarian: dohány (hu)
Hunsrik: Fummstock m
Iban: semakau
Icelandic: tóbak (is) n
Indonesian: tembakau (id)
Irish: tobac m
Italian: tabacco (it) m
Japanese: タバコ (ja) ( tabako ) , たばこ (ja) ( tabako ) , 煙草 (ja) ( たばこ, tabako, えんそう, ensō )
Javanese: mbako , tembako (jv) , sata
Kabardian: тутын (kbd) ( tutən )
Kalmyk: тәмк ( tämk )
Kannada: ತಂಬಾಕು (kn) ( tambāku )
Kazakh: темекі (kk) ( temekı )
Khmer: ថ្នាំជក់ ( thnam cŭək )
Kimbundu: rikanha
Korean: 담배 (ko) ( dambae ) , 연초(煙草) (ko) ( yeoncho )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: تووتن ( tûtin ) , توتِن ( tutin )
Northern Kurdish: tûtin (ku) f
Kyrgyz: тамеки (ky) ( tameki )
Lao: ຢາສູບ (lo) ( yā sūp )
Latvian: tabaka f
Leonese: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: tabakas m
Lombard: tabach (lmo) m
Luxembourgish: Tubak m
Macedonian: тутун (mk) m ( tutun )
Malay: tembakau (ms)
Malayalam: പുകയില (ml) ( pukayila ) , തമ്പാക്ക് (ml) ( tampākkŭ )
Maltese: tabakk m
Manchu: ᡩᠠᠮᠪᠠᡤᡠ ( dambagu )
Mansaka: tabako
Maori: tōrori , tupeka
Marathi: तंबाखू ( tambākhū )
Mauritian Creole: taba
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Mohegan-Pequot: inahpáwôk
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тамхи (mn) ( tamxi )
Mongolian: ᠲᠠᠮᠠᠬᠢ ( tamaki )
Nahuatl: piciyetl (nah)
Nanai: дамахи ( damahi )
Navajo: nátʼoh
Neapolitan: tabbacco m
Nepali: तमाखु m ( tamākhu ) , सुर्ती ( surtī )
Nivkh: тамх ( tamx )
Northern Sami: duhpát
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tobakk m
Nynorsk: tobakk m
Occitan: tabat (oc) m
Odia: ତମାଖୁ (or) ( tamākhu )
Ojibwe: asemaa
Old Tupi: petyma
Ossetian: тамако ( tamako )
Ottoman Turkish: توتون ( tütün )
Pashto: تنباکو m ( tanbāku ) , تمباکو (ps) m ( tambāku )
Persian:
Dari: تَنْبَاکُو (fa) ( tanbākū )
Iranian Persian: تَنْباکو (fa) ( tanbâku ) , توتون (fa) ( tutun )
Piedmontese: tabach m
Polish: tytoń (pl) m
Portuguese: tabaco (pt) m
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਤਮਾਕੂ m ( tamākū )
Shahmukhi: تَماکُو m ( tamākū )
Romagnol: tabàc m
Romanian: tutun (ro) m
Russian: таба́к (ru) m ( tabák )
Scottish Gaelic: tombaca m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ду̀ха̄н m ( Bosnian, Croatian ) , ду̀ва̄н m ( Serbian )
Roman: dùhān (sh) m ( Bosnian, Croatian ) , dùvān (sh) m ( Serbian )
Seychellois Creole: taba
Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
Simeulue: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: දුම්කොළ (si) ( dumkoḷa )
Slovak: tabak (sk) m
Slovene: tobak (sl) m
Somali: buuri
Spanish: tabaco (es) m
Swahili: mtumbaku
Swedish: tobak (sv) c
Tabasaran: тембеку ( tembeku )
Tajik: тамоку ( tamoku )
Tamil: புகையிலை (ta) ( pukaiyilai ) , தம்பாக்கு (ta) ( tampākku )
Taos: łáne
Tatar: төтен (tt) ( töten ) , тәмәке (tt) ( tämäke )
Telugu: పొగాకు (te) ( pogāku )
Thai: ยาสูบ (th) ( yaa-sùup ) , บุหรี่ (th) ( bù-rìi )
Tibetan: ཐ་མག ( tha mag ) , བཞེས་ཐག ( bzhes thag ) ( honorific )
Tigrinya: ትምባኾ ( təmbaxo )
Turkish: tütün (tr)
Turkmen: temmäki
Ukrainian: тютю́н (uk) m ( tjutjún )
Unami: kwshatay
Urdu: تَمْباکُو m , تَنْباکُو m ( tanbākū )
Uyghur: تاماكا ( tamaka )
Uzbek: tamaki (uz)
Vietnamese: thuốc lá (vi)
Volapük: tabak (vo)
Walloon: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: tybaco (cy) m
Xhosa: icuba , irhameti , irhamenti
Yiddish: טאַבאַק m ( tabak )
Zhuang: ien , ienmbaw
ǃXóõ: gǂkxʻàna
leaves of certain varieties of tobacco plant
Afrikaans: tabak
Albanian: duhan (sq) m
Amharic: ትምባሆ ( təmbaho )
Arabic: تَبْغ m ( tabḡ ) , تَبَغ m ( tabaḡ )
Armenian: ծխախոտ (hy) ( cxaxot ) , ծխախոտաբույս ( cxaxotabuys )
Asturian: tabacu m
Azerbaijani: tütün (az)
Bashkir: тәмәке ( təməke )
Belarusian: ты́тунь m ( týtunʹ )
Bengali: তামাক (bn) ( tamak )
Bulgarian: тютю́н (bg) m ( tjutjún )
Burmese: ဆေး (my) ( hce: )
Catalan: tabac (ca) m
Chamicuro: polojti
Cherokee: ᏦᎳ ( tsola )
Chichewa: fodya
Chinese:
Cantonese: 煙草 / 烟草 ( jin1 cou2 ) , 煙葉 / 烟叶 ( jin1 jip6 )
Mandarin: 煙草 / 烟草 (zh) ( yāncǎo ) , 煙葉 / 烟叶 (zh) ( yānyè )
Coptic: ⲭⲣⲉⲙⲧⲥ ( khremts )
Crimean Tatar: tütün
Czech: tabák (cs) m
Danish: tobak (da) c
Dutch: tabak (nl) m
Esperanto: tabako
Estonian: tubakas (et)
Faroese: tubbak n
Finnish: tupakka (fi)
French: tabac (fr) m
Galician: tabaco (gl) m
Georgian: თამბაქო ( tambako )
German: Tabak (de) m
Greek: καπνός (el) m ( kapnós )
Guajá: mɨtɨ́
Guaraní: petỹ
Gujarati: તમાકુ ( tamāku )
Hausa: antusko , asara
Hebrew: טַבָּק (he) m ( tabák )
Hindi: तंबाकू (hi) m ( tambākū )
Hungarian: dohány (hu)
Hunsrik: Fumm m
Icelandic: tóbak (is)
Indonesian: tembakau (id)
Irish: tobac m
Isthmus Zapotec: gueza
Italian: tabacco (it) m
Japanese: タバコ (ja) ( tabako ) , たばこ (ja) ( tabako ) , 煙草 (ja) ( たばこ, tabako, えんそう, ensō )
Javanese: tembako (jv) , sata
Kalmyk: тәмк ( tämk )
Kannada: ತಂಬಾಕು (kn) ( tambāku )
Kayapó: karinhô
Kazakh: темекі (kk) ( temekı )
Khmer: ថ្នាំជក់ ( thnam cŭək )
Korean: 담배 (ko) ( dambae ) , 연초(煙草) (ko) ( yeoncho )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: توتِن ( tutin ) , تووتن ( tûtin )
Northern Kurdish: tûtin (ku) f
Kyrgyz: тамеки (ky) ( tameki )
Lao: ຢາສູບ (lo) ( yā sūp )
Latin: tabacum n
Latvian: tabaka f
Lithuanian: tabakas m
Luxembourgish: Tubak m
Macedonian: ту́тун (mk) m ( tútun )
Malagasy: kisoka (mg) , paraky (mg) , tabaka (mg)
Malay: tembakau (ms)
Malayalam: പുകയില (ml) ( pukayila )
Maléku Jaíka: túa
Maltese: tabakk m
Maori: tupeka
Mohawk: oién:kwa'
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тамхи (mn) ( tamxi )
Mongolian: ᠲᠠᠮᠠᠬᠢ ( tamaki )
Nahuatl: piciyetl (nah)
Classical: piciyetl
Navajo: nátʼoh
Nivkh: тамх ( tamx )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tobakk m
Nynorsk: tobakk m
Occitan: tabat (oc) m
Ojibwe: asemaa
Old Tupi: petymaoba
Persian:
Dari: تَنْبَاکُو (fa) ( tanbākū )
Iranian Persian: تَنْباکو (fa) ( tanbâku ) , توتون (fa) ( tutun )
Pirahã: tíhi
Polish: tytoń (pl) m , tabaka (pl) f
Portuguese: tabaco (pt) m
Pykobjê: carin
Rohingya: 𐴐𐴟𐴥𐴑𐴝 ( cúuka )
Romanian: tutun (ro) n , tabac (ro) n
Russian: таба́к (ru) m ( tabák )
Scottish Gaelic: tombaca m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ду̀ха̄н m ( Bosnian, Croatian ) , ду̀ва̄н m ( Serbian )
Roman: dùhān (sh) m ( Bosnian, Croatian ) , dùvān (sh) m ( Serbian )
Sicilian: tabbaccu m
Slovak: tabak (sk) m
Slovene: tobak (sl) m
Spanish: tabaco (es) m
Sranan Tongo: tabaka
Swahili: tumbaku (sw)
Swedish: tobak (sv)
Tagalog: tabako
Taíno: cohoba
Tamil: புகையிலை (ta) ( pukaiyilai )
Tatar: төтен (tt) ( töten )
Telugu: పొగాకు (te) ( pogāku )
Thai: ยาสูบ (th) ( yaa-sùup )
Tibetan: མདོ་ཐག ( mdo thag ) , བཞེས་ཐག ( bzhes thag ) ( honorific )
Turkish: tütün (tr)
Tuvan: таакпы ( taakpı )
Ukrainian: тютю́н (uk) m ( tjutjún )
Urdu: تَمْباکُو m
Vietnamese: thuốc lá (vi)
Volapük: tabak (vo)
Welsh: tybaco (cy) m
West Frisian: tabak
Yiddish: טאַבאַק m ( tabak )
Zhuang: ien , ienmbaw , yenhcauj
ǃXóõ: gǂkxʻàna
tobacco (third-person singular simple present tobaccos , present participle tobaccoing , simple past and past participle tobaccoed )
( intransitive ) To indulge in tobacco; to smoke .
( transitive ) To treat with tobacco.
1918 , Tropical Diseases Bulletin , volume 12 , page 412 :The most satisfactory method of tobaccoing houses is that of stitching the leaves on to a piece of cloth like a strip of matting, which is then laid on the floor. Powdered tobacco should be introduced into rat holes, which can then be firmly closed up with bricks and mortar. Experiments carried out in the City of Hyderabad seem to have been very satisfactory.
^ Bartolomé de las Casas, 1552 (supports the gloss "roll of tobacco leaves")
^ Oviedo, 1535 (supports the gloss "pipe for smoking")