name
Meaning 1
A state of Mexico.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
tabasco
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/təˈbæskəʊ/
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CMU ARPABET: T AH0 B AE1 S K OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative letter-case form of Tabasco (hot sauce).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, uncountable, usually
Examples
- Robbie adores it when Heather puts tabasco on food.
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noun
Meaning 4
A tabasco pepper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- Louisiana is a major producer of tabascos.
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noun
Meaning 5
A spicy pepper sauce made from tabasco pepper (a chili pepper) with the addition of vinegar and salt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: red pepper
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Broader terms: hot pepper
noun
Meaning 7
very spicy sauce (trade name Tabasco) made from fully-aged red peppers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Tabasco sauce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hot sauce
noun
Meaning 8
a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: state, province
History
Etymology
Of unclear origin. The first definition listed in the 1994 Diccionario enciclopédico de Tabasco was from the Nahuatl name of the area, tlapalco meaning "(place of) damp earth"; wetlands are still extensive in the Mexican state of Tabasco. Other opinions listed were Mayan word tab-uaxac-koh, meaning "(our) lord of eight lions"; others suggest it derives from a Nahuatl word: tla-uashka-ko meaning "place that has an owner", or tlapachtli. The tabasco pepper was popular in the Mexican state and is named for it; a hot sauce made from that pepper was eaten in the state since the 1650s, and a version was popularized in the United States and elsewhere by the McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana, beginning in the 1870s.
See Tabasco.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 塔瓦斯科 (Tǎwǎsīkē) — state of Mexico
- Greek: Ταμπάσκο (Tampásko) — state of Mexico
- Marathi: ताबास्को (tābāsko) — state of Mexico
- Polish: Tabasco — state of Mexico
- Russian: Таба́ско (Tabásko) — state of Mexico
- Spanish: Tabasco — state of Mexico
- Swedish: Tabasco — state of Mexico
- Finnish: tabasko — hot sauce
- Greek: ταμπάσκο (tampásko) — hot sauce
- Polish: tabasco — hot sauce
- Swedish: tabasco — hot sauce
- Chinese Cantonese: 辣椒仔 (laat6 ziu1 zai2) — spicy pepper sauce
- Chinese Mandarin: 塔巴斯科辣椒醬 /塔巴斯科辣椒酱 (Tǎbāsīkē làjiāojiàng) — spicy pepper sauce
- Finnish: tabascokastike — spicy pepper sauce
- Greek: σάλτσα ταμπάσκο (sáltsa tampásko) — spicy pepper sauce
- Hindi: टबैस्को (ṭabaisko) — spicy pepper sauce
- Indonesian: tabasco — spicy pepper sauce
- Japanese: タバスコ (Tabasuko) — spicy pepper sauce
- Korean: 타바스코 소스 (Tabaseuko soseu) — spicy pepper sauce
- Marathi: टबास्को (ṭabāsko) — spicy pepper sauce
- Norwegian Bokmål: tabasko — spicy pepper sauce
- Norwegian Bokmål: tabaskosaus — spicy pepper sauce
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tabasko — spicy pepper sauce
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tabaskosaus — spicy pepper sauce
- Polish: tabasco — spicy pepper sauce
- Swedish: tabasco — spicy pepper sauce
- Swedish: tabascosås — spicy pepper sauce
- Urdu: ٹبیسکو (ṭabaisko) — spicy pepper sauce