See taboo on Wiktionary
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "taboo avoidance"
},
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"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "taboo deformation"
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"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "tabooer"
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"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "tabooness"
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"2": "to",
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"2": "1777"
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"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777.\nThe p in the Tongan source was misheard as b.",
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{
"form": "taboos",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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},
"expansion": "taboo (countable and uncountable, plural taboos)",
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"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 194:",
"text": "It is true indeed that a taboo - in order to be a proper taboo - must not rest in the general mind on argument or reason.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1922, James Frazer, The Golden Bough:",
"text": "So among the Alfoors of the island of Buru it is taboo to mention the names of parents and parents-in-law, or even to speak of common objects by words which resemble these names in sound.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 213:",
"text": "The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:",
"text": "For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 June 6, Kevin Roose, “Why I Can’t Bet Against Apple’s Mixed-Reality Prowess”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "Now, we assume that people who check their watches at dinner are probably trying to avoid pulling out their phones, which would be ruder and more disruptive. In other words, mass adoption killed the taboo.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion."
],
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"links": [
[
"inhibition",
"inhibition"
],
[
"ban",
"ban"
],
[
"social",
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],
[
"custom",
"custom"
],
[
"emotional",
"emotional"
],
[
"aversion",
"aversion"
]
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"countable",
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مَحْظُورٌ اجْتِمَاعِيّ"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tabu",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "տաբու"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tabu"
},
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"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "tabú",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "табу́"
},
{
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tabu",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "табу"
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{
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tabú"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bìjì",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "避忌"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jìnjì",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "禁忌"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jìhuì",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "忌諱 /忌讳"
},
{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "taboe"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tabuo"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabou"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabú"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṭabu",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "ტაბუ"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tampoú",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ταμπού"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "pemali"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "pantangan"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabù"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tabū",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "タブー"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"alt": "きんき",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kinki",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "禁忌"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ja",
"english": "general prohibition",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kinshi",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "禁止"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "xal",
"lang": "Kalmyk",
"roman": "xörg",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "хөрг"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ki",
"lang": "Kikuyu",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"class-3"
],
"word": "mũgiro"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "geumgi",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "금기"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "teobu",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "터부"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "tabu",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "табу"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "pantang"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "mh",
"lang": "Marshallese",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "mo̧"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tâbu",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "تابو"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tabú",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "табу́"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "табу"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabú"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "su",
"lang": "Sundanese",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "pamali"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tambiko"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "kabawalan"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tambu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "to",
"lang": "Tongan",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "tapu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "tabú",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "табу́"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabŵ"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "mww",
"lang": "White Hmong",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "caiv"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "tabu",
"sense": "inhibition or ban",
"word": "טאַבו"
}
]
},
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{
"_dis": "0 0 0 100 0 0 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Religion",
"orig": "en:Religion",
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"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred."
],
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[
"used",
"used"
],
[
"approached",
"approached"
],
[
"mentioned",
"mentioned"
],
[
"sacred",
"sacred"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred."
],
"raw_tags": [
"in Polynesia"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "tabú"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "fj",
"lang": "Fijian",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "kapu"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "tapu"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "rap",
"lang": "Rapa Nui",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "tapu"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tabú",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "табу́"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "sm",
"lang": "Samoan",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "tapu"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tabú"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "tambiko"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "tambu"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "to",
"lang": "Tongan",
"sense": "in Polynesia: something which may not be used",
"word": "tapu"
}
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/təˈbuː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/tæˈbuː/"
},
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"rhymes": "-uː"
}
],
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "tabu"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "tapu"
}
],
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],
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}
{
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "tabooification"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "tabooize"
}
],
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"2": "to",
"3": "tapu",
"t": "prohibited, sacred"
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"name": "bor+"
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},
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{
"args": {
"1": "c",
"2": "1777"
},
"expansion": "First attested in c. 1777",
"name": "etydate"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777.\nThe p in the Tongan source was misheard as b.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more taboo",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most taboo",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "taboo (comparative more taboo, superlative most taboo)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention."
],
"id": "en-taboo-en-adj-pF0wLQzp",
"links": [
[
"Excluded",
"excluded"
],
[
"forbidden",
"forbidden"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zabranen",
"sense": "excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention",
"word": "забранен"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention",
"word": "tabú"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jìhuì",
"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "忌諱 /忌讳"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "mark as taboo",
"tags": [
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"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "taboeïseren"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "tabustama"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "merkitä tabuksi"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "tabuisieren"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "tabuizzare"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kinki suru",
"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "禁忌する"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tabū ni suru",
"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "タブーにする"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kinshi suru",
"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "禁止する"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tabuírovatʹ",
"sense": "mark as taboo",
"tags": [
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"word": "табуи́ровать"
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"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "tambiko"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "tabuera"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "tabubelägga"
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "tabujuvaty",
"sense": "mark as taboo",
"word": "табуювати"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "jìnzhǐ",
"sense": "ban",
"word": "禁止"
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"word": "kieltää"
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"word": "tabuisieren"
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"word": "禁止する"
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"word": "налага́ть табу́"
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"word": "忌諱 /忌讳"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "bìmiǎn",
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"word": "避免"
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"word": "tabuizovat"
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"word": "välttää"
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