tapai

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay tapai (“fermented rice”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

tapai (uncountable)

  1. A traditional Asian food made from fermented carbohydrate, such as rice or cassava.

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French

Verb

tapai

  1. first-person singular past historic of taper

Galician

Verb

tapai

  1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural imperative of tapar

Indonesian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Malay tapai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapay (“fermented ”), from Proto-Austronesian *tapaJ (“fermented ”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ta‧pai

Noun

tapai (plural tapai-tapai, first-person possessive tapaiku, second-person possessive tapaimu, third-person possessive tapainya)

  1. (cooking) tapai: a traditional Asian food made from fermented carbohydrate, such as rice or cassava.
  2. synonym of tempayan

Derived terms

Further reading

Malay

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Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapay (“fermented ”), from Proto-Austronesian *tapaJ (“fermented ”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tapai (Jawi spelling تاڤاي, plural tapai-tapai, informal 1st possessive tapaiku, 2nd possessive tapaimu, 3rd possessive tapainya)

  1. (cooking) tapai: a traditional Asian food made from fermented carbohydrate, such as rice or cassava.
  2. (archaic) Synonym of tempayan

Derived terms

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Further reading

Portuguese

Verb

tapai

  1. second-person plural imperative of tapar

Terengganu Malay

Etymology

Related to Western Cham ꨓꨚꩈ (tapay) and Jarai pai (both from Proto-Chamic *tarapay).

Noun

tapai

  1. (archaic) rabbit

References

  1. ^ Turgood, Graham (1999) Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 332
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