different between tabi vs tabu

English

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (tabi, “foot pouch”).

Noun

tabi (plural tabis or tabi)

1. Traditional Japanese ankle socks with a separate section for the big toe.

Anagrams

• IBAT, a bit, bait, bati

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.bi?/

Particle

tabi

1. marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing

   Dagos tabi kamo. - Come on in, Sir/Ma'am.

   Maduman tabi ako sa simbahan, Nanay. - I am going to church, Mother.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta?bi

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

tabi

1. chitchat
2. talk; empty boasting, promises or claims
3. a rumor; a statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth
4. gossip; idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present

Verb

tabi

1. to talk; to communicate, usually by means of speech
2. to criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself
3. to chitchat
4. to gossip

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Interjection

tabi

1. excuse me
2. go away
3. a customary expression to excuse oneself from spirits or ghosts so as to avoid offending or injuring them, used especially when passing through or entering an unfamiliar, wooded or haunted place

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tabi.

Anagrams

• bati

Dupaningan Agta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.?bi/

Noun

tabí

1. fat; oil

Derived terms

• matabi

Japanese

Romanization

tabi

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

t?b?

1. dative singular of t?b?s

Tagalog

Noun

tabí

1. space, place, or position beside or near a person or thing
2. act of taking a position near or beside another
3. act of staying or passing along the side or border of (a road, river, etc.)
4. edge; border

Volapük

Noun

tabi

1. accusative singular of tab

Yoruba

Conjunction

tàbí

1. Alternative form of àbí

English

Noun

tabu (plural tabus)

1. Alternative spelling of taboo

Verb

tabu (third-person singular simple present tabus, present participle tabuing, simple past and past participle tabued)

1. Alternative spelling of taboo

Anagrams

• Batu, Taub, Tuba, abut, batu, buat, buta, tuba

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?bu/

Noun

tábu m 

1. transition

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 57

Comanche

Noun

tabu

1. rabbit

Czech

Noun

tabu n

1. taboo

Related terms

• tabuizovat

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English taboo, Tongan tapu

Noun

tabu

1. taboo

Declension

References

• “tabu” in Den Danske Ordbog

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Pacific *tabu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Cognate with Maori tapu, Hawaiian kapu.

Adjective

tabu

1. forbidden

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?bu/, [?t??bu]
• Rhymes: -?bu
• Syllabification: ta?bu

Noun

tabu

1. taboo

Declension

Compounds

• sanatabu

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?bu?/

Adjective

tabu (not comparable)

1. (predicative only) taboo

Usage notes

• The adjective is not used attributively (for which tabuisiert or compounds with Tabu are used).

Related terms

• Tabu
• tabuisieren

Further reading

• “tabu” in Duden online

Hungarian

Etymology

From English taboo. Ultimately from Tongan tapu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?bu]
• Hyphenation: ta?bu

Noun

tabu

1. taboo

Declension

References

Further reading

• tabu in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Latin

Verb

t?b?

1. ablative supine of t?be?

Lithuanian

Etymology

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

Noun

tabù m

1. taboo

Declension

Indeclinable.

Polish

Etymology

From Tongan tapu (“prohibited”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.bu/

Noun

tabu n (indeclinable)

1. taboo

Further reading

• tabu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

Noun

tabu m (plural tabus)

1. taboo (cultural inhibition or ban)

Adjective

tabu (plural tabu, comparable)

1. taboo (culturally forbidden from use, approach or mention)

Romanian

Etymology

From French tabou

Noun

tabu n (plural tabuuri)

1. taboo

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

English taboo.

Noun

tabu m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. taboo

Slovak

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tabu/

Noun

tabu n

1. taboo

Related terms

• tabuový
• tabuizova?

References

• tabu in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swedish

Noun

tabu n

1. taboo

Declension

Volapük

Noun

tabu

1. predicative singular of tab