different between taboo vs tabor

English

Alternative forms

• tabu, tapu

Etymology

Borrowing from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. The word entered English around 1777.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??bu?/, /tæ?bu?/

Noun

taboo (countable and uncountable, plural taboos)

1. An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 213:

     The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus.

2. (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

Translations

Adjective

taboo (comparative more taboo, superlative most taboo)

1. Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

   Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.

2. Culturally forbidden.

Translations

Verb

taboo (third-person singular simple present taboos, present participle tabooing, simple past and past participle tabooed)

1. To mark as taboo.
2. To ban.
3. To avoid.

Translations

Anagrams

• aboot

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?b?(r)

Etymology 1

Middle English, from Old French tabour, ultimately from Arabic ????????? (?unb?r).

Noun

tabor (plural tabors)

1. A small drum.
   1. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.

Derived terms

• taborist
• taborer

Translations

Verb

tabor (third-person singular simple present tabors, present participle taboring, simple past and past participle tabored)

1. (transitive) To make (a sound) with a tabor.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.

Etymology 2

From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish ?????? (tabur).

Noun

tabor (plural tabors)

1. A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 269:

     A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.

Anagrams

• Barot, Barto, Bator, ORBAT, Tobar, Torba, abort, boart, rabot

Old French

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (?unb?r) or Persian ???? (“drum”), related to Armenian ????? (tawi?), English tabla and tambour.

Noun

tabor m (oblique plural tabors, nominative singular tabors, nominative plural tabor)

1. tambour (drum)

Polish

Etymology

From Czech Tábor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.b?r/

Noun

tabor m inan (diminutive taborek)

1. (singular only) vehicle fleet
2. (singular only) rolling stock
3. (historical) A nomadic group of Gypsies.

   Synonym: szatra

4. (historical, military) wagon fort

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) taborowa?
• (adjective) taborowy

Further reading

• tabor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tabor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Hungarian tábor, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (tabur).

Noun

t?bor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. camp

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?bo?/, [t?a???o?]

Noun

tabor m (plural tabores)

1. (military) a small battalion