different between tapu vs tabu

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??pu?/

Noun

tapu (countable and uncountable, plural tapus)

1. Alternative form of taboo

Verb

tapu (third-person singular simple present tapus, present participle tapuing, simple past and past participle tapued)

1. Alternative form of taboo
   • 1859, Arthur Saunders Thomson, The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present (page 105)

     Tapuing seeds and fields are types of the English laws for protecting out-door property; women tapued to men is matrimony; tapuing sick persons is analogous to the quarantine orders against lepers, the plague and the yellow fever.

Anagrams

• Tupa, UATP, patu, puta

Kaurna

Noun

1. the common Australian fly (musca vetustissima)
2. one of two men at either side of the line at the beginning of the Kaurna circumcision ceremony

Latvian

Noun

tapu f

1. accusative singular form of tapa
2. instrumental singular form of tapa
3. genitive plural form of tapa

Verb

tapu

1. 1st person singular past indicative form of tapt

Malecite-Passamaquoddy

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *ta·paw-.

Numeral

tapu

1. two

Synonyms

• nis

Maori

Etymology

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

Adjective

tapu

1. holy, sacred, consecrated
2. restricted, prohibited, forbidden

Noun

tapu

1. taboo, restriction (as a spiritual or supernatural condition)

Synonyms

• ?rai

Quechua

Noun

tapu

1. question

Declension

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Adjective

tapu

1. sacred, taboo

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Noun

tapu

1. taboo

Adjective

tapu

1. taboo

Sranan Tongo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.pu/

Etymology 1

From English top.

Preposition

tapu

1. on, on top of

Etymology 2

From English stop.

Verb

tapu

1. to stop

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.pu/

Noun

tapu

1. taboo
2. oath, pledge

Adjective

tapu

1. sacred, taboo, forbidden

References

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “tapu” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu. Cognates include Hawaiian kapu and Samoan tapu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.pu/
• Hyphenation: ta?pu

Verb

tapu

1. (stative) to be forbidden, taboo

Derived terms

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 373

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (tapu).

Noun

tapu (definite accusative tapuyu, plural tapular)

1. deed (document)
2. deed office, for example the registrar of landownership

Declension

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