Neuter

Tabu

Synonyms

strenges Verbot

Untersagung

Inhibition

Tabuisierung

Verbotenes

verbotene Sache

ungeschriebenes Gesetz

verbotenes Terrain

absolute Schranke

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/taˈbuː/
Etymology

In summary

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

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