Tabu

Definitions: Tabu

Tabu

Adjective

1. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.

2. Excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject".

Noun

1. A prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature.

2. An inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tabu" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Tabu

Crosswords: Tabu

Albanian (taboo), Czech (taboo, tabu), Finnish (taboo), German (taboo, tabu, unmentionable), Hungarian (taboo), Indonesian (taboo, touch-me-not), Portuguese (jujube, sacred cow, taboo), Romanian (taboo, tabu), Serbo-Croatian (ju-ju, taboo), Swedish (taboo, tabu), Turkish (taboo, tabu).

Isle of Tabu (1945)

Tabu (1931)

Dernier voyage Tabu (1996)

Tabu (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Der verborgene Tod : Ausk�nfte �ber ein Tabu (reference)

• Obras Completas - Tomo XIII Totem y Tabu y Otras Obras (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Human Rights

Congo

In April 1999, members of the Presidential Guard arrested Ralph Biteo, because he had the facial features of a Tutsi, and Biteo's cousin Mirimo Mulongo; both were released in August 1999. There were no developments in the following 1999 cases of arrest and detention: Tabu Kalaia, president of the Katangan provincial branch of the opposition UDPS party; Professor Kambaj wa Kambaji; Wetemwani Katembo Merikas, an activist with the youth-oriented human rights NGO Cojeski; and Innocent Kyuma. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

i ndaluar (blocked, contraband, detained, fixed, forbidden, illegal, illicit, impermissible, prohibited, stayed, unallowed, unlawful, unstatutable, unwarranted). (various references)

Bulgarian 

табу (taboo). (various references)

Czech

tabuový (taboo), tabu (taboo), zákaz (ban, blackout, estoppel, inhibition, interdict, prohibition, taboo). (various references)

German

tabuierung (taboo, tabooing), tabuieren (taboo), tabu (taboo, unmentionable), verboten (banned, forbidden, foul, illegal, illicit, interdicted, prohibited, taboo). (various references)

Greek 

απαγορεύω (ban, disallow, forbid, interdict, prohibit, slap a ban on, taboo), απαγορευμένοσ από δεισιδαιμονία (taboo), ταμπού (sacred cow, taboo), θρησκευτική απαγόρευση (taboo). (various references)

Italian

tabu\ (taboos). (various references)

Pig Latin

abutay.(various references)

Romanian

tabu (taboo), intangibil (impalpable, intangible, taboo). (various references)

Russian 

запретный. (various references)

Spanish

tabú (taboo), prohibir (ban, bar, clamp down, debar, embargo, forbad, forbid, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, proscibe, put a ban on, taboo), prohibido (barred, forbidden, no, no go, prohibited, restricted, taboo), declarar tabú (taboo). (various references)

Swedish

tabubelägga (taboo), tabu (taboo). (various references)

Turkish

tabulaştırmak (put under a taboo, taboo), tabu (taboo), yasaklamak (ban, bar, call off, clamp the lid on smth., debar, embargo, enjoin, forbid, imprison, inhibit, interdict, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, put a ban on, put one's foot down, put the lid on smth., put under a ban, put under a taboo, taboo), yasaklı (proscriptive, under a ban), yasak (ban, don't, forbidden, illicit, impermissible, interdict, no, prohibition, proscriptive, restricted, restriction, taboo, under a ban), konuşulması yasak şey, konuşulması yasak. (various references)

Ukranian 

священний (blessed, hieratic, holy, sacramental, taboo), табу (taboo), накладати табу (taboo), забороняти (bar, disallow, embar, enjoin, forbid, inhibit, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, provide, suppress, taboo, veto), заборонений (forbidden, prohibited, suppressed, taboo), піддавати остракізму (ostracize, taboo). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự kiêng kỵ (taboo), bị cấm kỵ (taboo), bị cấm đoán (taboo), điều cấm kỵ (taboo). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tabu": tabued, tabuing, tabular, tabulate, tabulated, tabulates, tabulating, tabulation, tabulations, tabulator, tabulators, tabuli, tabulis, tabun, tabuns, tabus. (additional references)

Words containing "tabu": acetabula, acetabular, acetabulum, acetabulums, constabularies, constabulary, fantabulous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: abut, tuba.

-1 letter: bat, but, tab, tau, tub, uta.

-2 letters: ab, at, ba, ta, ut.

+1 letter: about, abuts, battu, beaut, tabun, tabus, tsuba, tubae, tubal, tubas.

+2 letters: abduct, ablaut, abrupt, arbute, baguet, barbut, bateau, battue, beauts, beauty, brutal, butane, hagbut, numbat, rubati, rubato, sacbut, sagbut, tabour, tabued, tabuli, tabuns, tambur, tubate, turban, upbeat.

+3 letters: abducts, ablauts, abluent, abluted, abought, abuttal, abutted, abutter, antibug, arbutes, arbutus, autobus, backout, baguets, bailout, ballute, banquet, barbuts, bateaux, bathtub, batteau, battues, bauxite, bawsunt, boatful, bullate, bullbat, bumboat, buoyant, bursate, bustard, butanes, butanol, buttals, butyral, cubital, cutback, cutbank, gunboat, habitue, habitus, hackbut, hagbuts, halibut, hautboy, mutable, mutably, numbats, outback, outbake, outbark, outbawl, outbeam, outbrag, paystub, robusta, rubatos, sacbuts, sackbut, sagbuts, saxtuba, subatom, sublate, subpart, subtask, subtaxa, sunbath, tableau, tabouli, tabours, tabuing, tabular, tabulis, tambour, tambura, tamburs, tarbush, tubaist, tubular, tugboat, tunable, tunably, turbans, turbary, unbated, upbeats, washtub.

+4 letters: abducent, abducted, abductee, abductor, abluents, ablution, aboiteau, abrupter, abruptly, absolute, abstruse, abundant, abutilon, abutment, abuttals, abutters, abutting, airburst, ambulant, ambulate, arbutean, asbestus, aubretia, aubrieta, autobahn, backouts, badmouth, baguette, bailouts, ballutes, baluster, bankrupt, banquets, barguest, bathtubs, batteaux, bauxites, bauxitic, beauties, beautify, bequeath, bijugate, blackout, blastula, bluecoat, boastful, boatfuls, bouffant, braunite, breadnut, breakout, brutally, bucktail, bullbats, bumboats, bunkmate, bushgoat, bustards, butanols, butanone, butylate, butyrals, butyrate, carburet, cubature, cutbacks, cutbanks, cuttable, daubiest, debutant, drawtube, drumbeat, dutiable, eurybath, extubate, fabulist, gadabout, gunboats, gustable, habitual, habitude, habitues, hackbuts, halibuts, hautbois, hautboys, huntable, incubate, intubate, jubilant, jubilate, layabout, lobulate, marabout, obdurate, obituary, obturate, outbacks, outbaked, outbakes, outbarks, outbawls, outbeams, outblaze, outbleat, outboard, outboast, outbrags, outbrave, outbrawl, outbreak, outfable, paystubs, pubertal, quotable, quotably, rambutan, rebuttal, robustas, rubaiyat, runabout, rustable, rutabaga, saboteur, sackbuts, saltbush, saxtubas, subabbot, subacute, subadult, subagent, subatoms, subcaste, sublated, sublates, subovate, subparts, subshaft, substage, substate, subtasks, subtaxon, subtopia, subtotal, subtract, subulate, suitable, suitably, sunbathe, sunbaths, surfboat, tableaus, tableaux, tableful, taboulis, taboured, tabourer, tabouret, tabulate, tamboura, tambours, tamburas, tribunal, tubaists, tubbable, tubulate, tugboats, tuneable, tuneably, turbaned, turbinal, turbocar, turbofan, turnable, umbonate, unabated, unbathed, unbeaten, unstable, unstably, urbanest, urbanist, urbanite, urbanity, washtubs, zaibatsu.

+5 letters: abductees, abducting, abduction, abductors, ablutions, aboiteaus, aboiteaux, abruptest, abruption, absoluter, absolutes, abstruser, absurdest, absurdist, absurdity, abutilons, abutments, acetabula, adumbrate, airbursts, ambiguity, ambitious, ambulated, ambulates, antiurban, arboretum, arbutuses, attribute, aubretias, aubrietas, auditable, autobahns, autobuses, backcourt, bacterium, badmouths, baguettes, balusters, bankrupts, banqueted, banqueter, banquette, barguests, barquette, basketful, bathhouse, baulkiest, beatitude, beauteous, beautiful, bequeaths, bifurcate, bisulfate, blackouts, blastulae, blastulas, bluecoats, boathouse, botulinal, bouffants, bratwurst, braunites, breadnuts, breakouts, brutalise, brutality, brutalize, bucktails, buckwheat, budgetary, bunkmates, buoyantly, bushgoats, butadiene, butanones, butterfat, butylated, butylates, butyrates, carburets, cobaltous, countable, countably, cubatures, debutante, debutants, doubtable, drawtubes, drumbeats, dubitable, eastbound, equitable, equitably, eurybaths, extubated, extubates, exuberant, exuberate, fabulists, flashtube, gadabouts, grubstake, gustables, habituate, habitudes, heartburn, hereabout, houseboat, immutable, immutably, imputable, incubated, incubates, incubator, intubated, intubates, isobutane, jubilated, jubilates, layabouts, lobulated, lubricant, lubricate, marabouts, mountable, multiband, multibank, obfuscate, objurgate, obscurant, obturated, obturates, obturator, outbaking, outbarked, outbawled, outbeamed, outblazed, outblazes, outbleats, outboards, outboasts, outbraved, outbraves, outbrawls, outbreaks, outdebate, outfabled, outfables, rambutans, rebuttals, refutable, refutably, reputable, reputably, rubricate, runabouts, rutabagas, saboteurs, salubrity, saturable, sauceboat, scrutable, starburst, stirabout, suability, subabbots, subadults, subagents, subaltern, subarctic, subatomic, subcastes, subjacent, subjugate, sublating, sublation, sublethal, sublimate, submarket, submittal, subrogate, subshafts, substages, substance, substates, substrata, substrate, subtaxons, subtenant, subtopias, subtotals, subtracts, sunbathed, sunbather, sunbathes, surfboats, tabbouleh, tablature, tablefuls, tablesful, tabourers, tabourets, tabouring, tabulated, tabulates, tabulator, tambouras, tamboured, tambourer, tarbushes, tenurable, thumbnail, thumbtack, touchable, touchback, trabecula, tribulate, tribunals, tribunate, tributary, trustable, tubulated, tubulates, turbanned, turbaries, turbinals, turbinate, turbocars, turbofans, turnabout, turntable, umbellate, unactable, uneatable, unstabler, untamable, untenable, urbanists, urbanites, usability, utterable, walkabout, waterbuck.

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