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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabəq. Compare Tagalog taba.

• IPA^(key): /taˈba/ [taˈba]
• IPA^(key): /taˈbaʔ/ [taˈbaʔ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧ba

tabá or tabâ (Basahan spelling ᜆᜊ)

1. fat, lard
2. fatness (of a person, animal)

   Antonym: niwang

3. grease (for food, meat)

   Synonym: suya

4. richness; fertility (for soil)

   Synonym: kabalunbonan

Borrowed from Arabic كَعْب (kaʕb).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈta.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈta.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈta.ba]

taba f (plural tabes)

1. (anatomy) anklebone
2. (often plural) knucklebones, jacks

   Synonyms: ossets, joc de botxí

3. (colloquial) chitchat

• “taba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

taba

1. fat; lard

taba

1. Rōmaji transcription of たば

tāba

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of tābum

tabá

1. fat

taba

1. alum
2. lard; animal fat

taba class 9 (plural taba class 10, colloquial plural bataba class 2)

1. Alternative form of ntaba

From Proto-Finnic *tapa.

taba

1. custom
2. character
3. nature (of a person &c.)

taba

1. fat

From French tabac.

taba

1. tobacco

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Compare Cahuilla támit

• IPA^(key): /tapa/

taba

1. sun

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.βa/
• Rhymes: -aβa
• Hyphenation: ta‧ba

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tap, from Proto-Mawé-Guaraní *t͡sap, from Proto-Tupian *jap.^[1]

Cognate with Guaraní táva.

taba (possessable)

1. village
2. city, town

   Synonyms: tabeté, tabusu

3. place

   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, edited by Pe. Armando Cardoso, Doutrina Cristã do Catecismo Brasílico, volume I, São Paulo: Edições Loyola, published 1993, page 226:

     — Umãmepe i momendari?
     — Paraíso Terreal taporãngatu pupé.

     — Where did he wed them?
     — At the Terrestrial Paradise, a very beautiful place.

• Nheengatu: tawa (“city”)
• → Portuguese: taba (“Tupian village”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

taba

1. absolute of aba

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “taba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 455, column 2

taba m (genitive singular taba, plural tabaichean)

1. tab (computing - in TDI)

From French tabac.

taba

1. tobacco

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

From Arabic كَعْب (kaʕb).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaba/ [ˈt̪a.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: ta‧ba

taba f (plural tabas)

1. (anatomy) anklebone

   Synonym: astrágalo

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 308:

     Para combatir el dolor reumático, es conveniente llevar en el bolsillo del lado enfermo, una taba de cordero.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “taba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “taba”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• DiPerú | Diccionario de peruanismos en línea (apl.org.pe)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabəq. Compare Bikol Central taba.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈbaʔ/ [t̪ɐˈbaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧ba

tabâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊ)

1. fat (specialized animal tissue)
2. fatness (of a person, animal, etc.)

   Synonym: katabaan

3. lard (fat from pig abdomen)
4. (figurative) fertility (of soil)
5. (colloquial) fat person; fatso

   Synonyms: tabatsoy, tabatsing, tabatsingtsing

• “taba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• abat, baat, bata

From Proto-Finnic *tapa, from Baltic.

taba

1. character, temperament
2. disposition
3. temper
4. custom, habit

Inflection of taba (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	taba
genitive sing.	taban
partitive sing.	tabad
partitive plur.	taboid
	singular	plural
nominative	taba	tabad
accusative	taban	tabad
genitive	taban	taboiden
partitive	tabad	taboid
essive-instructive	taban	taboin
translative	tabaks	taboikš
inessive	tabas	taboiš
elative	tabaspäi	taboišpäi
illative	tabaha	taboihe
adessive	tabal	taboil
ablative	tabalpäi	taboilpäi
allative	tabale	taboile
abessive	tabata	taboita
comitative	tabanke	taboidenke
prolative	tabadme	taboidme
approximative I	tabanno	taboidenno
approximative II	tabannoks	taboidennoks
egressive	tabannopäi	taboidennopäi
terminative I	tabahasai	taboihesai
terminative II	tabalesai	taboilesai
terminative III	tabassai	—
additive I	tabahapäi	taboihepäi
additive II	tabalepäi	taboilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “нрав, повадка, темперамент, характер”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

taba

1. genitive singular of tab

Borrowed from Hausa tāba, ultimately from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq), see Spanish tabaco, Portuguese tabaco.

• IPA^(key): /tá.bà/

tábà

1. tobacco, tobacco plant

   Synonym: tánà