Translation
tobacco
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Word origin
The origin is genuinely disputed. Spanish carried the word into the rest of Europe, and it reached English as 'tobacco'.
- Origin
- uncertain
- Root
- tabaco
- English cognates
- tobacco
Other proposed origins
- Most often traced to a Taino (Arawakan) word for a roll of tobacco leaves or the reed pipe used to inhale the smoke, recorded by early Spanish colonists in the Caribbean. (tabaco)
- Some accounts instead derive it from an Arabic word for a medicinal herb, tabbaq, that Spanish already knew before contact with the Americas. (tabbaq)
Grammar
Examples
impregnaba .
The smell of tobacco filled the whole room.
.
He gave up tobacco after twenty years of smoking.
驴 ?
Have you got any tobacco left?
perjudicial .
Tobacco is harmful to your health.
liar.
He bought a pouch of rolling tobacco.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 33, lesson 12: tabaco, danza, calcet铆n and 7 more words.