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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??? (taû). The physics sense was coined by American physicist Martin Perl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?/, /t??/
• Rhymes: -a?, -??

Noun

tau (plural taus)

1. The letter ?/? in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
2. A ?-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.
   • 1658: Nor shall we take in the mysticall Tau, or the Crosse of our blessed Saviour, which having in some descriptions an Empedon or crossing foot-stay, made not one single transversion. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 168)
3. (physics, dated) A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.
4. (physics) An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.
5. (biology) Tau protein, a type of protein that stabilizes microtubules in the human central nervous system, failures of which are associated with forms of dementia.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 263:

     Quite what that job is remains obscure, but one theory is that it is to stabilise another protein called tau, which is supposed in turn to keep in shape the tubular ‘skeleton’ of a neuron.

6. (finance) A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.
7. (mathematics, neologism) An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its radius, approximately 6.2831853071; equal to twice the value of pi. Often written ? or 2?.

Synonyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): kappa, vega

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Coordinate terms

• (Greek letter): Previous: sigma. Next: upsilon

Derived terms

• tauon
• tauopathy
• tau lepton
• tau meson
• tau neutrino
• tau protein

Translations

Further reading

• tau on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tau (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tau (protein) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AUT, UAT, UTA, Uta, aut-, uta

'Are'are

Verb

tau

1. to give

References

• Kate?ina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?taw/
• Rhymes: -aw

Noun

tau f (plural taus)

1. Tau; the Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).
2. Tav; the Hebrew letter ??.
3. (religion) A tau cross.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tau?]

Noun

tau n

1. tau (Greek letter)

Further reading

• tau in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• tau in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??? (taû).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tau

1. tau (Greek letter)
2. tauon, tau (elementary particle)

Declension

Anagrams

• -tua

French

Alternative forms

• (in the plural) taus (1990 spelling reform)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to/
• Homophones: taus, taux, tôt

Noun

tau m (plural tau or taus)

1. tau (Greek letter)
2. (physics) tau, tauon

Derived terms

• tauique

Further reading

• “tau” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tua

German Low German

Alternative forms

• to (in some dialects)

Etymology

Middle Low German tô.

Preposition

tau

1. (in some dialects) to

Derived terms

• taum
• taun
• taur

Huichol

Noun

tau

1. sun

Hungarian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??? (taû).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?u]
• Hyphenation: tau
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

tau (plural tauk)

1. tau (Greek letter)

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish tøj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?øy?/
• Rhymes: -øy?

Noun

tau n (genitive singular taus, no plural)

1. fabric
2. clothing

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Verb

tau

1. Nonstandard spelling of tahu.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?/

Noun

tau

1. the Greek letter tau (? or ?)

Further reading

• “tau” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

tau m or f (invariable)

1. tau (Greek letter)

Anagrams

• tua

Japanese

Romanization

tau

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kambera

Verb

tau

1. person

References

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 328

Kapampangan

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *Cau

Noun

tau

1. person
2. human

Lithuanian

Pronoun

tau

1. (second-person singular) dative form of tu.

Malay

Alternative forms

• tahu
• ?????

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic *tahu(?), from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.

Pronunciation

• (Kedah) IPA^(key): /tau/
• IPA^(key): /ta.u/
• Rhymes: -au, -u

Verb

tau

1. Nonstandard spelling of tahu.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tau, from Ancient Greek ??? (taû).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tau/

Noun

tau (Jawi spelling ????, plural tau-tau, informal 1st possessive tauku, impolite 2nd possessive taumu, 3rd possessive taunya)

1. the Greek letter tau (? or ?)

Further reading

• “tau” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

Noun

tau

1. year (time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun)
2. year (time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body)
3. year (a period between set dates that mark a year)
4. year (scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity)
5. year (Julian year)
6. year (level or grade at school or college)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta?uq.

Verb

tau

1. to settle

Etymology 3

From Proto-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.

Noun

tau (used in the form m?tau)

1. knowledge

Verb

tau (used in the form m?tau)

1. (stative) to know

References

• “tau” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, ?ISBN.

Min Nan

Minangkabau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tahu(?), from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.

Verb

tau

1. to know

Niuean

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

Noun

tau

1. year

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta?u?.

Verb

tau

1. fight

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian tw?. Compare Mooring North Frisian twäär, tou.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tau/

Numeral

tau

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Heligoland, Sylt) two

Coordinate terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tog (rope)

Noun

tau n (definite singular tauet, indefinite plural tau, definite plural taua or tauene)

1. a rope
2. (physics) tau lepton
3. tau (Greek letter)

Synonyms

• (rope): rep, reip

Derived terms

• ståltau
• taubane
• tauverk

Etymology 2

Verb

tau

1. imperative of taue

References

• “tau” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From earlier and Old Norse tog (“rope”), from Proto-Germanic *taug?.

Alternative forms

• tog (superseeded)

Noun

tau n (definite singular tauet, indefinite plural tau, definite plural taua)

1. a rope

Synonyms

• (rope): reip

Derived terms

• ståltau
• taubane
• tauverk

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??? (taû).

Noun

tau m (definite singular tauen, indefinite plural tauar, definite plural tauane)

1. tau: The letter ?/? in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
2. (physics) tau lepton

References

• “tau” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Tau, tua

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin talis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taw/

Adjective

tau m (feminine singular tala, masculine plural taus, feminine plural talas)

1. (Gascony, Provençal, Limousin, Vivaro-alpine, Auvergne) such

Dialectal variants

• tal

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tau
• Homophone: tal (Brazil)
• Rhymes: -aw

Noun

tau m (plural taus)

1. tau (name of the Greek letter ?, ?)
2. (physics) tauon

Sotho

Noun

tau 9 or 10 (plural ditau)

1. lion

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tau/, [?t?au?]

Noun

tau f (plural taus)

1. tau; the Greek letter ?, ?
2. tauon (elementary particle)

   Synonym: tauón

See also

• (Greek script letter names) letra; alfa, beta, gamma, delta, épsilon, dseda, eta, zeta, iota, kappa, lambda, mi, ni, xi, ómicron, pi, ro, sigma, tau, ípsilon, fi, ji, psi, omega ^{(Category: es:Greek letter names)}
• (leptons) leptón; electrón, muón, tau/tauón, neutrino electrónico, neutrino muónico, neutrino tauónico

Tahitian

Adjective

tau

1. some

Synonyms

• nau

References

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

Tausug

Noun

tau

1. person
2. human

Derived terms

• pagkatau

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Middle Chinese ? (MC t?u^X).

Noun

tau ? sg (irregular plural towä or tom or taum)

1. a dry measure, roughly equivalent to ten quarts or 1.25 pecks

References

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta?u?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.u/

Verb

tau

1. fight

Tswana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.u/

Noun

tau 9/10 (plural ditau)

1. lion

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [taw??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [taw??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ta(?)w??]

Pronoun

tau

1. Central Vietnam form of tao (“I/me”)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ta??/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /tai?/

Verb

tau

1. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future of tewi

Mutation

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *t?uk, from Old Chinese ? (OC *t???).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tau??/

Verb

tau

1. to get, gain, obtain
2. (used preverbally) perfective action marker

3. (used postverbally) potential mood marker

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary?^[1], SEAP Publications, ?ISBN.
• Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien Language History (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, ?ISBN.

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