Tauber

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

Tauber (plural Taubers)

1. A surname from German.

• 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.

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

Borrowed from German Tauber.

Tauber

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʊ̯.bər/, [ˈtʰaʊ̯.bɐ]

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• Hyphenation: Tau‧ber

Variant of Taube.

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)

• Vogel
• Taubenvogel
• Taube

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

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)

• Main-Tauber-Kreis

Substantivization of taub.

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.

Tauber f

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

• “Tauber” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache