Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. · Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
adj
Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention. · Culturally forbidden.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo mark as taboo. · To ban or prohibit. · To avoid.
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. The p in the Tongan source was misheard as b.
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