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Yes. The word tabu is a Scrabble US word. The word tabu is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word tabu is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (4 found)

ABUT,BUAT,TABU,TUBA,

3-letter words (6 found)

BAT,BUT,TAB,TAU,TUB,UTA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AB,AT,BA,TA,UT,

You can make 15 words from tabu according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of tabu

tabu atbu tbau btau abtu batu taub atub tuab utab autb uatb tbua btua tuba utba buta ubta abut baut aubt uabt buat ubat

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Definitions and meaning of tabu

tabu

Noun

tabu (plural tabus)

  1. Alternative spelling of taboo

Derived terms

  • tabu search

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): /ˈtabu/, [ˈtʌbʊ]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtabu]

Noun

tabu n (indeclinable)

  1. taboo

Related terms

Adjective

tabu (indeclinable)

  1. taboo

Further reading

  • tabu in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • tabu in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • tabu in Internetová jazyková příručka

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

Etymology

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑbu/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝bu]
  • Rhymes: -ɑbu
  • Syllabification(key): ta‧bu

Noun

tabu

  1. taboo

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tabu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taˈbuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Adjective

tabu (indeclinable, predicative only)

  1. 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
  • “tabu” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Etymology

From English taboo. Ultimately from Tongan tapu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒbu]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧bu

Noun

tabu

  1. taboo

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtabu/
  • Hyphenation: ta‧bu

Noun

tabu (first-person possessive tabuku, second-person possessive tabumu, third-person possessive tabunya)

  1. taboo

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tabu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Lithuanian

Etymology

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

Noun

tabù m

  1. taboo

Declension

Indeclinable.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

Noun

tabu n (definite singular tabuet, indefinite plural tabu, definite plural tabua or tabuene)

  1. taboo

References

  • “tabu” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English taboo, from Tongan tapu.

Noun

tabu n (definite singular tabuet, indefinite plural tabu, definite plural tabua)

  1. taboo

References

  • “tabu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English taboo, from Tongan tapu (“prohibited”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.bu/
  • Rhymes: -abu
  • Syllabification: ta‧bu

Noun

tabu n (indeclinable)

  1. taboo

Further reading

  • tabu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tabu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: ta‧bu

Noun

tabu m (plural tabus)

  1. taboo (cultural inhibition or ban)

Adjective

tabu (invariable)

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tabou.

Noun

tabu n (plural tabuuri)

  1. taboo

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

English taboo.

Noun

tabu m (Cyrillic spelling табу)

  1. taboo

Slovak

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtabu/

Noun

tabu n

  1. taboo

Related terms

  • tabuový
  • tabuizovať

References

  • “tabu”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swahili

Noun

tabu (n class, plural tabu)

  1. Alternative form of taabu (“hardship, distress, misery, difficulty”)

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Tongan tapu.

Noun

tabu n

  1. taboo

Declension

Derived terms

  • sexualtabu
  • tabubelagd
  • tabubelägga
  • tabuera
  • tabuföreställning
  • tabuord

Adjective

tabu (not comparable)

  1. taboo

Usage notes

As adjective only used predicatively.

Synonyms

  • tabubelagd

References

  • tabu in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • tabu in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • tabu in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈta.bu]

Verb

tabu (Jawi تابو)

  1. (transitive) to shoot, fire
    tabu si uspera ― to fire the gun

Conjugation

References

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Volapük

Noun

tabu

  1. predicative singular of tab

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