tabac
Catalan
Pronunciation
Related terms
- tabacada
- tabacaire
- tabacar
- tabaquejar
- tabaquer
- tabaquera
- tabaqueria
- tabaquisme
French

Plant de tabac rustique (1).

Tabac à rouler (2).

Un café bar tabac (4).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.ba/
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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
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)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tabac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French tabac, from Spanish tabaco, either from Arabic or from Taíno. See English tobacco for more.
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طبق (tabak).
Declension
Derived terms
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