Tauber

See also: tauber and Täuber

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Tauber, an occupational surname for a pigeon breeder, from Taube (“pigeon”) + -er.

Proper noun

Tauber (plural Taubers)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tauber is the 11595^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2708 individuals. Tauber is most common among White (95.27%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tauber”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Tauber.

Proper noun

Tauber

1. A left tributary of the Main in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, Germany

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʊ̯.bər/, [ˈtʰaʊ̯.bɐ]

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• Hyphenation: Tau‧ber

Etymology 1

Variant of Taube.

Noun

Tauber m (strong, genitive Taubers, plural Tauber, feminine Täubin)

1. male pigeon or dove (cock pigeon, cock-pigeon, he-pigeon, cock dove, cock-dove, he-dove)

Declension

Declension of Tauber [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Tauber	die	Tauber
genitive	eines	des	Taubers	der	Tauber
dative	einem	dem	Tauber	den	Taubern
accusative	einen	den	Tauber	die	Tauber

Synonyms

• männliche Taube
• Taubenhahn
• Taubenmännchen
• Täuber
• Tauberich
• Täuberich

 

Hypernyms

• Vogel
• Taubenvogel
• Taube

Coordinate terms

• Taubenhenne
• Taubenweibchen
• Täubin
• weibliche Taube

 

Etymology 2

From a Celtic (likely Gaulish) word meaning "water". Compare English Dover, Welsh dwfr, dŵr, Breton dour and Old Irish dobur (“water, river”).

Proper noun

die Tauber f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Tauber)

1. Tauber (a left tributary of the Main in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, Germany)

Derived terms

• Main-Tauber-Kreis

Etymology 3

Substantivization of taub.

Noun

Tauber m (adjectival, definite nominative der Taube, genitive (des) Tauben, plural Taube, definite plural die Tauben, feminine Taube)

1. deaf person (male or of unspecified sex)

   Er macht die Blinden sehend und die Tauben hörend. - He makes the blind see and the deaf hear.

Declension

Declension of Tauber [masculine, adjectival]

	singular		plural
masculine gender	strong declension
nominative	Tauber		Taube
genitive	Tauben		Tauber
dative	Taubem		Tauben
accusative	Tauben		Taube
	weak declension
nominative	der	Taube	die	Tauben
genitive	des	Tauben	der	Tauben
dative	dem	Tauben	den	Tauben
accusative	den	Tauben	die	Tauben
	mixed declension
nominative	ein	Tauber	(keine)	Tauben
genitive	eines	Tauben	(keiner)	Tauben
dative	einem	Tauben	(keinen)	Tauben
accusative	einen	Tauben	(keine)	Tauben

Noun

Tauber f

1. inflection of Taube:
   1. strong genitive/dative singular
   2. strong genitive plural

Further reading

• “Tauber” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache