tobacco

See also: Tobacco

English

Tobacco plant

Alternative forms

• tabacco (obsolete)

Etymology

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" or "a pipe for smoking tobacco," such as tabago (“tube for inhaling smoke or powdered intoxicating plants”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /təˈbæk.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /təˈbæk.oʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ækəʊ

Noun

tobacco (countable and uncountable, plural tobaccos or tobaccoes)

1. (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
2. (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.

3. (countable) A variety of tobacco.

   Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.

Derived terms

• antitobacco
• antitobaccoite
• Aztec tobacco
• big tobacco
• California rabbit tobacco
• chewing tobacco
• coyote tobacco
• green tobacco sickness
• heated tobacco
• ladies' tobacco
• mountain tobacco
• native tobacco
• nigger tobacco
• nontobacco
• occabot
• Oriental tobacco
• protobacco
• Queen's tobacco-pipe
• rabbit tobacco
• sailor's tobacco
• teabacco
• tobaccanalian
• tobacciana
• tobacco beetle
• tobacco budworm
• Tobacco Caye
• tobacco dove
• tobacco dust juice
• tobaccoey
• tobaccofied
• tobacco heart
• tobacco hornworm
• tobaccoish
• tobaccoism
• tobaccoite
• tobacco juice
• tobaccoless
• tobaccolike
• tobacco lime
• tobaccoman
• tobacco mosaic
• tobacco moth
• tobacconalian
• tobacconist
• tobaccophile
• tobaccophobe
• tobacco pipe
• Tobacco Road
• tobacco-roader
• tobacco-sick
• tobacco splitworm
• Tobacco State
• tobacco-stopper
• tobacco thrips
• tobacco water
• tobacco wireworm
• tomacco
• tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca)
• Turkish tobacco
• wild tobacco

Descendants

• → Irish: tobaca
• → Scottish Gaelic: tombaca
• → Welsh: tybaco

Translations

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
• Baluchi: تماکو (tamàku)
• 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 (¹i-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 (tanbākū)

  Iranian Persian: تَنْباکو (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 (tambākū), تَنْباکُو m (tanbākū)
• Uyghur: تاماكا (tamaka)
• Uzbek: tamaki (uz)
• Vietnamese: thuốc lá (vi)
• Volapük: tabak (vo)
• Walloon: toubak (wa) m
• 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 (tanbākū)

  Iranian Persian: تَنْباکو (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
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tubak m

  Upper Sorbian: tobak 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 (tambākū), تَنْباکُو m (tanbākū)
• Vietnamese: thuốc lá (vi)
• Volapük: tabak (vo)
• Welsh: tybaco (cy) m
• West Frisian: tabak
• Yiddish: טאַבאַק m (tabak)
• Zhuang: ien, ienmbaw, yenhcauj
• ǃXóõ: gǂkxʻàna

variety

• Finnish: tupakkalajike, tupakkalaatu

Verb

tobacco (third-person singular simple present tobaccos, present participle tobaccoing, simple past and past participle tobaccoed)

1. (intransitive) To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
2. (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.

See also

• baccy, backy
• chop chop
• smoke

Anagrams

• occabot