Taube
German, noun
Taube is spelled T-A-U-B-E (5 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written German, the 12,471st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Taube is a German feminine noun meaning “pigeon, dove (male or female bird of the Columba genus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a female equivalent of Tauber: deaf woman or girl. In lower case, taube is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine artenreiche Vogelfamilie aus der Ordnung der Taubenvögel”.
What does Taube mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepigeon, dove (male or female bird of the Columba genus)
- 2
feminineColumba (constellation)
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of Tauber: deaf woman or girl
noun
- 1
masculinestrong nominative/accusative plural
- 2
masculineweak nominative singular
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine artenreiche Vogelfamilie aus der Ordnung der Taubenvögel 2. mittelgroßer Vogel mit grauem Gefieder; Stadttaube 3. zum Beispiel ein für Frieden und Gewaltfreiheit eintretender Mensch oder auch ein Friedensangebot 4. ein Sternbild
noun: 1. weibliche Person, die taub ist, also nicht hören kann
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Taube
- Tauben plural
- Täubchen diminutive neuter
- Täublein diminutive neuter
- Tauberl diminutive neuter
- die Taube definite nominative
- Tauber genitive
- der Tauben definite genitive
- die Tauben definite plural
- weibliche feminine
- Täubin feminine
- Taubenhenne feminine
- Taubenweibchen feminine
- Weibchen feminine
- männliche masculine
- Täuber masculine
- Tauberich masculine
- Täuberich masculine
- Taubenhahn masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Taube
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Taube in German?
Taube appears 4.9 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).