tabu
English
Noun
tabu (plural tabus)
- Alternative spelling of taboo
Verb
tabu (third-person singular simple present tabus, present participle tabuing, simple past and past participle tabued)
- Alternative spelling of taboo
Anagrams
Comanche
Noun
tabu
Czech
Noun
tabu n
Related terms
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English taboo, Tongan tapu
Noun
tabu
Declension
References
- “tabu” in Den Danske Ordbog
Fijian
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *tabu. Cognate with Maori tapu, Hawaiian kapu.
Adjective
tabu
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
tabu
Declension
Inflection of tabu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tabu | tabut | |
genitive | tabun | tabujen | |
partitive | tabua | tabuja | |
illative | tabuun | tabuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tabu | tabut | |
accusative | nom. | tabu | tabut |
gen. | tabun | ||
genitive | tabun | tabujen | |
partitive | tabua | tabuja | |
inessive | tabussa | tabuissa | |
elative | tabusta | tabuista | |
illative | tabuun | tabuihin | |
adessive | tabulla | tabuilla | |
ablative | tabulta | tabuilta | |
allative | tabulle | tabuille | |
essive | tabuna | tabuina | |
translative | tabuksi | tabuiksi | |
abessive | tabutta | tabuitta | |
instructive | — | tabuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Compounds
German
Etymology
Adjective
tabu (not comparable)
- (predicative only) taboo
- Das ist tabu.
- That’s taboo.
Usage notes
- The adjective is not used attributively (for which tabuisiert or compounds with Tabu are used).
Related terms
Further reading
- “tabu” in Duden online
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) tābū
Lithuanian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English taboo, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Tongan tapu.
Noun
tabù m
Declension
Indeclinable.
Polish
Etymology
From Tongan tapu (“prohibited”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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Further reading
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -u
Noun
tabu m (plural tabus)
- taboo (cultural inhibition or ban)
Adjective
tabu (invariable)
- taboo (culturally forbidden from use, approach or mention)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] English taboo.
Noun
tabu m (Cyrillic spelling табу)
Slovak
Etymology
Ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Polynesian *tapu.
Pronunciation
Noun
tabu n
Related terms
References
- “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, 2024
Swedish
Noun
tabu n
Declension
Declension of tabu | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tabu | tabut | tabun | tabuna |
Genitive | tabus | tabuts | tabuns | tabunas |
Volapük
Noun
tabu
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- Comanche lemmas
- Comanche nouns
- com:Mammals
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech neuter nouns
- Danish terms borrowed from English
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish terms derived from Tongan
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Fijian terms inherited from Proto-Oceanic
- Fijian terms derived from Proto-Oceanic
- Fijian lemmas
- Fijian adjectives
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German adjectives
- German uncomparable adjectives
- German terms with usage examples
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms
- Lithuanian terms derived from English
- Lithuanian terms derived from Tongan
- Lithuanian lemmas
- Lithuanian nouns
- Lithuanian masculine nouns
- Polish terms borrowed from Tongan
- Polish terms derived from Tongan
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/u
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese indeclinable adjectives
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from English
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Slovak terms derived from Proto-Polynesian
- Slovak 2-syllable words
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak nouns
- Slovak neuter nouns
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- Volapük non-lemma forms
- Volapük noun forms