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Japanese
タバコ on Japanese Wikipedia
たばこ on Japanese Wikipedia
Etymology
From Portuguese tabaco.
Pronunciation
Noun
タバコ or たばこ • (tabako)
- tobacco
- Synonyms: 思い草 (omoigusa), 忘れ草 (wasuregusa)
- Short for 紙巻きタバコ (kamimaki tabako, “cigarette”).
2008 April 9, Hideaki Sorachi, “第二百二訓 タバコは一箱に一、二本馬糞みたいな匂いのする奴が入っている [Lesson 202: Only One or Two Cigarettes Left in a Whole Box Would Smell Like Horsecrap]”, in [銀](ぎん)[魂](たま) ([銀](ぎん)[魂](たま)) [Silver Soul], volume 23 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
- 黙らんかデルデ‼タバコというのは吸うために存在するのだ 吸えないタバコなどタバコではない‼
- Damaran ka Derude‼ Tabako to iu no wa sū tame ni sonzai suru no da Suenai tabako nado tabako de wa nai‼
- Quiet, Delde!! A cigarette exists so that it can be smoked. An unsmoked cigarette is not a cigarette!!
Usage notes
- Unusually for gairaigo (non-Middle Chinese borrowings), tabako is often written in hiragana. This is particularly seen on convenience store signs, indicating that cigarettes are for sale. This usage (hiragana rather than katakana) is attributed to this being an old borrowing, dating to the nanban trade period (16th & 17th century), before the convention of writing gairaigo as katakana had developed.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Early Modern Korean: 담파고 (tamphakwo)
- → Ainu: タンパク (tampaku)
References
- “Tabako”, Bathrobe’s Chinese, Japanese & Vietnamese Writing Systems