tabac

Catalan

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic طباق (ṭabbāq), from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq), a name applied to various smelly, sticky plants including stinkweed, yellow fleabane, and ploughman's-spikenard.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Northern, Central) [təˈβak]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [təˈbak]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [taˈbak]
  • IPA(key): (Northwestern) [taˈβak]
  • Audio (Catalonia):(file)

Noun

tabac m (plural tabacs)

  1. tobacco

Further reading

French

Plant de tabac rustique (1).
Tabac à rouler (2).
Un café bar tabac (4).

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    Borrowed from Spanish tabaco.

    Noun

    tabac m (plural tabacs)

    1. (uncountable, botany) tobacco (any plant of the genus Nicotiana)
      des plantations de tabac ― tobacco plantations
    2. tobacco (leaves of certain varieties of the plant cultivated and harvested)
      du tabac blond ― blond tobacco
      Pour la pipe, quels sont tes tabacs préférés ?
      What are your favorite pipe tobaccos?
    3. (uncountable, with le) smoking, nicotine addiction
      J’ai pris une résolution : demain, j’arrête le tabac.
      I have made a decision: tomorrow I'm quitting smoking.
    4. tobacconist (shop where tobacco is sold)
      Synonyms: bureau de tabac, débit de tabac, tabagie
      Il s’engouffra dans un tabac et en sortit avec un briquet.
      He rushed into a tobacconist's and came out with a lighter.
    5. (by extension, regional) corner shop
      Synonym: épicerie
      Le supermarché est fermé à cette heure-ci, il faudra acheter des bières dans un tabac.
      The supermarket is closed at this time; you will have to buy beer in a corner shop.
    6. (figurative) thing, stuff
      (c'est toujours) le même tabac – c'est du même tabac.
      (it's always) the same thing – it's the same old stuff.
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • Mauritian Creole: taba
    • Michif: tabaa
    • → Dutch: tabak
    • → German: Tabak
    • → Irish: tobac
    • → Romanian: tabac
    • → Russian: таба́к (tabák)
    • → Yiddish: טאַבאַק (tabak)

    Adjective

    tabac (invariable)

    1. having the color of tobacco
      • 1836, Honoré de Balzac, Œuvres diverses, volume 1:
        Voyez quel air martial respire ce vénérable membre de la Garde nationale! Avec son habit tabac, son sabre et sa giberne en bandoulière, son fusil sur l'épaule […] il va affronter les ennemis […] de la tranquillité publique.
        See what martial air this venerable member of the National Guard breathes! With his tobacco-coloured coat, his sword and his pouch on a bandolier, his gun on his shoulder […] he will face the enemies […] of public peace.

    Further reading

    Etymology 2

    Deverbal from tabasser. The expected spelling is *tabas (compare tracas from tracasser, fracas from fracasser); the -ac spelling is due to the influence of the above noun tabac (“tobacco”).

    Noun

    tabac m (plural tabacs)

    1. violent fight
      Il va y avoir du tabac ce soir !
      There's going to be a fight tonight!
    Derived terms

    Further reading

    Friulian

    Noun

    tabac m (plural tabacs)

    1. tobacco

    Irish

    Noun

    tabac m

    1. alternative form of tobac (“tobacco”)

    Mutation

    Mutated forms of tabac
    radical lenition eclipsis
    tabac thabac dtabac

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    Romanian

    Etymology 1

    Borrowed from French tabac, from Spanish tabaco, either from Arabic or from Taíno. See English tobacco for more.

    Noun

    tabac n (uncountable)

    1. tobacco
      Synonym: tutun
    Declension
    singular only indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative tabac tabacul
    genitive-dative tabac tabacului
    vocative tabacule

    Etymology 2

      Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طبق (tabak).

      Noun

      tabac m (plural tabaci)

      1. tanner (one who tans hides)
      Declension
      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative tabac tabacul tabaci tabacii
      genitive-dative tabac tabacului tabaci tabacilor
      vocative tabacule tabacilor
      Derived terms
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