verb · transitive · rare

taboo

taboo · taboos · tabooed · tabooing

табуювати

налагать табу, табуировать

tabuisieren

To mark as tabooTo mark as taboo.

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/təˈbuː/

» No taboo is known to be universal.

Kein Tabu ist bekannt universal zu sein.

Немає універсальних табу.

Meaning

3 senses

(transitive)To mark as taboo.
tabuisieren
табуи́роватьtabuírovatʹ
табуюватиtabujuvaty
(transitive)To ban or prohibit.
tabuisieren
налага́ть табу́nalagátʹ tabú
(transitive)To avoid.
tabuisieren
налага́ть табу́nalagátʹ tabú

More definitions

declare as sacred and forbidden

Examples

39 sentences

No taboo is known to be universal.
Немає універсальних табу. — oromashka
deKein Tabu ist bekannt universal zu sein. — dasbeispielholz
CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · cheryl_kannan · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
This subject is taboo.
Ця тема — табу. — deniko
ruЭто запретная тема. — marafon
CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · mervert1 · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
Your generation thought sexuality was taboo.
CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · nonong · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
In special forces, torture is a taboo.
ruВ спецподразделениях существует табу на пытки. — odexed
CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · Amastan · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
That's not really a taboo around here.
CC0 · Tatoeba · shekitten · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem

Translations

4 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

mark as taboo:

Русский

By meaning 2

mark as taboo:

ban:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

mark as taboo:

Origin

Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-

Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777.

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Forms

taboos, tabooing, tabooed, tabooed

Base form	taboo · to taboo
3rd person singular	taboos
Present participle	tabooing
Past simple	tabooed
Past participle	tabooed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	taboo
he, she, it	taboos

Past simpleLesson

all persons

tabooed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have tabooed
he, she, it	has tabooed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will taboo

Synonyms

1 synonyms

tabooize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle