tabac - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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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.
tabac m (plural tabacs)
- “tabac”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “tabac” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
tabac m (plural tabacs)
- (uncountable, botany) tobacco (any plant of the genus Nicotiana)
- des plantations de tabac ― tobacco plantations
- 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?
- (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.
- tobacconist (shop where tobacco is sold)
- Synonyms: bureau de tabac, débit de tabac
Il s’engouffra dans un tabac et en sortit avec un briquet.
- He rushed into a tobacconist's and came out with a lighter.
- (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.
- (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.
- → Dutch: tabak
- → German: Tabak
- → Irish: tobac
- → Romanian: tabac
- → Russian: таба́к (tabák)
- → Yiddish: טאַבאַק (tabak)
tabac (invariable)
- 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.
tabac on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Deverbal of 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”).
tabac m (plural tabacs)
- “tabac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
tabac m (plural tabacs)
tabac m
- Alternative form of tobac (“tobacco”)
| 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.
Borrowed from French tabac, from Spanish tabaco, either from Arabic or from Taíno. See English tobacco for more.
tabac n (uncountable)
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | tabac | tabacul |
| genitive-dative | tabac | tabacului |
| vocative | tabacule |
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طبق (tabak).
tabac m (plural tabaci)
- tanner (one who tans hides)