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taboon

taboon is the alternative form of tabun.

Meaning of tabun

Noun (1)

tabun (uncountable)

  1. An extremely toxic nerve gas; a clear, tasteless liquid, with the molecular formula C₅H₁₁N₂O₂P.
    Synonyms:
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Noun (2)

tabun (plural tabuns)

  1. A clay oven, shaped like a truncated cone, with an opening at the bottom for stoking the fire.
    • Standing near Joseph, carrying a bag of taboon flatbreads, was Olivier, from Ivory Coast. He arrived a year ago and has been trying to save the 3,000 dinars (£780) he said it would cost to make the trip to Europe.2023 March 30, Simon Speakman Cordall, “Tunisian morgue overflows as more people attempt risky sea crossing”, in The Guardian

Forms of taboon

pluraltaboons

Questions about taboon

What is taboon the alternative form of?
Taboon is the alternative form of tabun.

Words near taboon in the dictionary

  1. tabooizing
  2. tabooless
  3. taboolessness
  4. tabooley
  5. tabooli
  6. taboon
  7. tabooness
  8. taboons
  9. taboos
  10. taboot
  11. taboots

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: taboon (page history and authors); tabun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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