Tabu

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Tabu may refer to:

Cultural and legal concepts:

• Tapu (Polynesian culture) (also spelled tabu), a Polynesian cultural concept from which the word taboo derives
• Tapu (Ottoman law) (also tabu), a permanent lease of state-owned arable land to a peasant family in the Ottoman Empire

People

• Tabu (actress) (born 1971), Indian actress
• Tabu Ley Rochereau (born 1940), Congolese musician
• Tabu Taid (born 1942), Indian educationist, writer and scholar

Music:

• Tabu Records, an American record label founded in 1975
• Tabu Records (Denmark), founded by the Danish group Suspekt in 1998
• Tabu Recordings, an independent Norwegian record label founded in 2003
• Tabu (band), pop-rock band from Slovenia
• Tabu (band), traditional Portuguese band based in Canada

Entertainment:

• Tabu (1931 film), a 1931 award winning film directed by F. W. Murnau
• Tabu (2012 film), a 2012 Portuguese film
• Tabu (TV series), a Finnish dark comedic show consisted of long-form sketches, featuring actors such as Pirkka-Pekka Petelius and Aake Kalliala
• Tabu the Jungle Wizard, a superpowered jungle hero comic book character created by Fletcher Hanks

Other uses:

• Tabu search, a mathematical optimization method
• Tabu by Dana, a perfume and cosmetics line from the 1930s manufactured by House of Dana
• Tabu (Romanian magazine), owned by Realitatea-Caţavencu

See also

• Taboo
• Tabuu, a character from the video game Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Tabou (disambiguation)