# 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: (Central) [təˈβak]
* IPA: (Balearic) [təˈbak]
* IPA: (Valencia) [taˈbak]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tabac m (plural tabacs)
* tobacco

#### Related terms

* tabacada
* tabacaire
* tabacar
* tabaquejar
* tabaquer
* tabaquera
* tabaqueria
* tabaquisme

### Further reading

* “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.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.ba/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish tabaco.

#### Noun

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.

##### Derived terms

* antitabac
* bar-tabac
* bureau de tabac
* débit de tabac
* petit tabac
* tabac ailé
* tabac blanc
* tabac commun
* tabac de jardin
* tabac géant
* tabac glauque
* tabac marron
* tabac rustique
* tabac sylvestre
* tabac-presse
* tabacole
* tabacologie
* tabacologue
* tabacomanie
* tabaculteur
* tabaculture
* tabagie
* tabagique
* tabagisme
* tabagiste
* tabatier
* tabatière

##### Descendants

* → Dutch: tabak
* → German: Tabak
* → Irish: tobac
* → Romanian: tabac
* → Russian: таба́к (tabák)
* → Yiddish: טאַבאַק (tabak)

#### Adjective

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.

#### Further reading

* tabac on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$

### 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)
* violent fight
    Il va y avoir du tabac ce soir !There's going to be a fight tonight!

##### Derived terms

* coup de tabac
* faire un tabac
* passage à tabac, passer à tabac
* tabassage
* tabassée
* tabasser

#### Further reading

* “tabac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Noun

tabac m (plural tabacs)
* tobacco

## Irish
### Noun

tabac m
* Alternative form of tobac (“tobacco”)

### Mutation

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)
* tobacco
    Synonym: tutun

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طبق (tabak).

#### Noun

tabac m (plural tabaci)
* tanner (one who tans hides)

##### Derived terms

* tăbăci