tobacco

English

tobacco plant

Etymology

Attested since 1588, a borrowing from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word is either from Arabic طَبَاق (ṭabāq, “a type of medicinal herb”), also طُبَاق (ṭubāq), or from a Taino word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves" or "a pipe for smoking tobacco".

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /təˈbækoʊ/

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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

• occabot (back slang)

Translations

any plant of the genus Nicotiana

• Abenaki: wdamô
• Albanian: duhan (sq)
• Arabic: تَبْغ‎ m (tabḡ), تَبَغ‎ m (tabaḡ)
• Armenian: ծխախոտ (hy) (cxaxot)
• Asturian: tabacu m
• Azeri: tütün (az), tənbəki
• Bashkir: тәмәке (tämäke)
• Belarusian: ты́тунь m (týtunʹ)
• Bengali: তামাক (tamak)
• Bulgarian: тютю́н (bg) m (tjutjún)
• Burmese: ဆေး (my) (hce:)
• Cahuilla: pivat
• Catalan: tabac (ca) m
• Catawba: umpa
• Central Melanau: tebakau
• Cherokee: ᏦᎳ (tsola)
• Chichewa: fodya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙草 (zh), 烟草 (zh) (yāncǎo)

• Crimean Tatar: tütün
• Czech: tabák (cs) m
• Danish: tobak (da) c
• Dutch: tabaksplant (nl)
• Esperanto: tabako
• Estonian: tubakas (et)
• Faroese: tubbak n
• Finnish: tupakka (fi), tupakkakasvi
• French: tabac (fr) m
• Galician: tabaco (gl) m
• German: Tabakpflanze f
• Greek: καπνός (el) m (kapnós), νικοτιανή f (nikotianí)
• Gujarati: તમાકુ (tamāku)
• Hebrew: טַבָּק‎ m (tabak)
• Hindi: तम्बाकू (hi) (tambākū)
• Hungarian: dohány (hu)
• Iban: semakau
• Icelandic: tóbak (is)
• Indonesian: tembakau (id)
• Irish: tobac m
• Italian: tabacco (it) m
• Japanese: タバコ (tabako), たばこ (ja) (tabako), 煙草 (ja) (tabako)
• Kalmyk: тәмк (tämk)
• Kannada: ತಂಬಾಕು (kn) (taṃbāku)
• Kazakh: темекі (kk) (temeki)
• Khmer: ថ្នាំជក់ (tnam jʊək)
• Korean: 담배 (ko) (dambae), 연초 (ko) (yeoncho) (煙草 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: тамеки (ky) (tameki)
• Lao: ຢາສູບ (lo) (yā sūp)

• Latvian: tabaka f
• Lithuanian: tabakas m
• Luxembourgish: Tubak m
• Macedonian: ту́тун m (tútun)
• Malay: tembakau
• Malayalam: പുകയില (ml) (pukayila)
• Maltese: tabakk m
• Maori: tōrori, tupeka
• Mohegan-Pequot: inahpáwôk
• Mongolian: тамхи (mn) (tamhi)
• Navajo: nátʼoh
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: duhpát
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: تنباکو‎ m (tanbākú), تمباکو‎ (ps) m (tambākú)
• Persian: تنباکو‎ (fa) (tanbâko)
• Polish: tytoń (pl) m
• Portuguese: tabaco (pt) 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)

• Slovak: tabak (sk) m
• Slovene: tobak (sl) m
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: tabaco (es) m
• Swahili: mtumbaku (sw)
• Swedish: tobak (sv)
• Tajik: тамоку (tamoku)
• Tamil: புகையிலை (ta) (pukaiyilai)
• Taos: łáne
• Tatar: төтен (tt) (töten)
• Telugu: పొగాకు (te) (pogāku)
• Thai: ยาสูบ (th) (yaa-sùup), บุหรี่ (th) (bù-rìi)
• Turkish: tütün (tr)
• Turkmen: temmäki
• Ukrainian: тютю́н (uk) m (tjutjún)
• Unami: kwshatay
• Urdu: تمباکو‎ m (tambākū)
• Uyghur: تاماكا‎ (tamaka)
• Uzbek: tamaki (uz)
• Vietnamese: thuốc lá (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: tybaco (cy) m
• Yiddish: טאַבאַק‎ m (tabak)
• 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
• Azeri: tütün (az)
• Bashkir: тәмәке (tämäke)
• Belarusian: ты́тунь m (týtunʹ)
• Bengali: তামাক (tamak)
• Bulgarian: тютю́н (bg) m (tjutjún)
• Burmese: ဆေး (my) (hce:)
• Catalan: tabac (ca) m
• Chamicuro: polojti
• Cherokee: ᏦᎳ (tsola)
• Chichewa: fodya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙草 (zh), 烟草 (zh) (yāncǎo), 煙葉 (zh), 烟叶 (zh) (yānyè)

• 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 m (tabak)
• Hindi: तंबाकू (hi) m (tambākū)
• Hungarian: dohány (hu)
• Icelandic: tóbak (is)
• Indonesian: tembakau (id)
• Irish: tobac m
• Isthmus Zapotec: gueza
• Italian: tabacco (it) m
• Japanese: タバコ (tabako), たばこ (ja) (tabako), 煙草 (ja) (tabako)
• Kalmyk: тәмк (tämk)
• Kannada: ತಂಬಾಕು (kn) (taṃbāku)
• Kazakh: темекі (kk) (temeki)
• Khmer: ថ្នាំជក់ (thnămchôk)
• Korean: 담배 (ko) (dambae), 연초 (ko) (yeoncho) (煙草 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: توتن‎ (tootin)

• Kyrgyz: тамеки (ky) (tameki)
• Lao: ຢາສູບ (lo) (yā sūp)
• Latin: tabacum n
• Latvian: tabaka
• Lithuanian: tabakas m
• Luxembourgish: Tubak m
• Macedonian: тутун m (tútun)
• Malagasy: kisoka (mg), paraky (mg), tabaka (mg)
• Malay: tembakau
• Malayalam: പുകയില (ml) (pukayila)
• Maltese: tabakk m
• Maléku Jaíka: túa
• Maori: tupeka
• Mohawk: oién:kwa'
• Mongolian: тамхи (mn) (tamhi)
• Nahuatl: piciyetl (nah)

  Classical: piciyetl

• Navajo: nátʼoh
• Norwegian: tobakk
• Persian: تنباکو‎ (fa) (tanbâko)
• Pirahã: tíhi
• Polish: tytoń (pl) m, tabaka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tabaco (pt) m
• Romanian: tutun (ro) m, f, 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)

• Slovak: tabak (sk) m
• Slovene: tobak (sl) m
• Spanish: tabaco (es) m
• Swahili: hamamu (sw), tumbaku (sw)
• Swedish: tobak (sv)
• Tagalog: tabako
• Taino: tabacu'
• Tamil: புகையிலை (ta) (pukaiyilai)
• Tatar: төтен (tt) (töten)
• Telugu: పొగాకు (te) (pogāku)
• Thai: ยาสูบ (th) (yaa-sùup)
• Turkish: tütün (tr)
• Tuvan: таакпы (taakpı)
• Ukrainian: тютю́н (uk) m (tjutjún)
• Urdu: تمباکو‎ m (tambākū)
• Vietnamese: thuốc lá (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: tybaco (cy) m
• West Frisian: tabak
• Yiddish: טאַבאַק‎ m (tabak)
• ǃXóõ: gǂkxʻàna

variety

• Finnish: tupakkalajike, tupakkalaatu

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 香煙

See also

• baccy, backy
• chop chop
• smoke

Anagrams

• occabot