Taboo vs Tabor - What's the difference?
taboo | tabor |
An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
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* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 213:
(in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
Culturally forbidden.
A small drum. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
* 2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 269:
As a noun taboo
is an inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.As an adjective taboo
is excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.As a verb taboo
is to mark as taboo.As a proper noun tabor is
(city in the czech republic).taboo
English
(wikipedia taboo)Alternative forms
* tabuNoun
(en noun)- The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus .
Adjective
(en adjective)- Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
Anagrams
*tabor
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tabour.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From various Slavic languages, from Turkish.Noun
(en noun)- A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.