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Tabu may refer to:

Cultural and legal concepts

• Taboo (spelled tabu in earlier historical records), something that is unacceptable in society
• 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
• Toubou people of Africa

People

• Tabu (actress) (born 1971), Indian actress
• Tabu Ley Rochereau (1937–2013), Congolese musician
• Tabu Taid (born 1942), Indian educationist, writer and scholar
• Tabu Abdallah, Burundian politician and former finance minister for Burundi

Film and television

• 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
• Tabu the Jungle Wizard, a superpowered jungle hero comic book character created by Fletcher Hanks

Music

• Tabu, a 2017 album by Timoteij
• Tabu, a 2017 album by Lana Jurčević
• Tabu, a 2018 album by Michelle
• "Tabú" (song), a 2019 song by Pablo Alborán and Ava Max
• 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

Other uses

• Tabu search, a mathematical optimization method
• Tabu by Dana, a perfume and cosmetics line from the 1930s manufactured by House of Dana

See also

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