English
tobacco plant
Etymology
Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco . The Spanish word is either from Arabic طَبَاق ( ṭabāq , “ a type of medicinal herb ” ) , also طُبَاق ( ṭubāq ) , or from a Taíno word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves"[1] or "a pipe for smoking tobacco".[2]
Pronunciation
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Rhymes: -ækəʊ
Noun
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.
Derived terms
Translations
any plant of the genus Nicotiana
Abenaki: wdamô
Albanian: duhan (sq)
Arabic: تِبْغ m ( tibḡ ) , تَبْغ m ( tabḡ ) , دُخَان m ( duḵān ) , دُخَّان m ( duḵḵān ) , تُمْبَك m ( tumbak )
Armenian: ծխախոտ (hy) ( cxaxot )
Assamese: ধঁপাত ( dhõpat )
Asturian: tabacu m
Azerbaijani: tütün (az) , tənbəki
Bashkir: тәмәке ( təməke )
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 / 烟草 (zh) ( yāncǎo ) , 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 (ja) ( tabako ) , たばこ (ja) ( tabako ) , 煙草 (ja) ( tabako )
Kalmyk: тәмк ( tämk )
Kannada: ತಂಬಾಕು (kn) ( tambāku )
Kazakh: темекі (kk) ( temekı )
Khmer: ថ្នាំជក់ ( thnam cŭək )
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
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Luxembourgish: Tubak m
Macedonian: ту́тун m ( tútun )
Malay: tembakau
Malayalam: പുകയില (ml) ( pukayila )
Maltese: tabakk m
Maori: tōrori , tupeka
Marathi: तंबाखू ( tambākhū )
Mohegan-Pequot: inahpáwôk
Mongolian: тамхи (mn) ( tamxi )
Nahuatl: piciyetl (nah)
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
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 )
Zhuang: ien
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 ( 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 / 烟草 (zh) ( yāncǎo ) , 烟草 (zh) ( yāncǎo ) , 煙葉 / 烟叶 (zh) ( yānyè ) , 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 (ja) ( tabako ) , たばこ (ja) ( tabako ) , 煙草 (ja) ( tabako )
Kalmyk: тәмк ( tämk )
Kannada: ತಂಬಾಕು (kn) ( tambāku )
Kazakh: темекі (kk) ( temekı )
Khmer: ថ្នាំជក់ ( thnam cŭək )
Korean: 담배 (ko) ( dambae ) , 연초 (ko) ( yeoncho ) (煙草 (ko) )
Kurdish:
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Kyrgyz: тамеки (ky) ( tameki )
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Lao: ຢາສູບ (lo) ( yā sūp )
Latin: tabacum n
Latvian: tabaka
Lithuanian: tabakas m
Luxembourgish: Tubak m
Macedonian: ту́тун 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) ( tamxi )
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) 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 )
Slovak: tabak (sk) m
Slovene: tobak (sl) m
Spanish: tabaco (es) m
Swahili: tumbaku (sw)
Swedish: tobak (sv)
Tagalog: tabako
Tamil: புகையிலை (ta) ( pukaiyilai )
Tatar: төтен (tt) ( töten )
Taíno: tabacu'
Telugu: పొగాకు (te) ( pogāku )
Thai: ยาสูบ (th) ( yaa-sùup )
Tibetan: མདོ་ཐག ( mdo thag )
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 )
Zhuang: ien , ienmbaw , yenhcauj
ǃXóõ: gǂkxʻàna
Translations to be checked
Verb
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.
See also
References
^ Las Casas, 1552 (supports the gloss "roll of tobacco leaves")
^ Oviedo, 1535 (supports the gloss "pipe for smoking")
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