tapai

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Malay tapai (fermented rice).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tapai (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

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French

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Verb

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tapai

  1. first-person singular past historic of taper

Galician

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Verb

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tapai

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

Indonesian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Malay tapai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapay (fermented [food]), from Proto-Austronesian *tapaJ (fermented [food]).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtapai̯]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧pai

Noun

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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

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Further reading

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Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapay (fermented [food]), from Proto-Austronesian *tapaJ (fermented [food]).

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Noun

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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

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Further reading

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Portuguese

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Verb

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tapai

  1. second-person plural imperative of tapar

Terengganu Malay

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Etymology

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Related to Western Cham ꨓꨚꩈ (tapay) and Jarai pai (both from Proto-Chamic *tarapay).[1]

Noun

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tapai

  1. (archaic) rabbit

References

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  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