tapai

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay tapai (“fermented rice”)

Noun

tapai (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

French

Verb

tapai

  1. first-person singular past historic of taper

Galician

Verb

tapai

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

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtapai̯]
  • 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
  • tapaian
  • tapai ketan
  • tapai singkong
  • tapai uli

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /taˈpai/
  • Rhymes: -apai, -pai, -ai
  • Hyphenation: ta‧pai

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
Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

  • penapai [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
  • penapaian [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
  • petapaian [passive / name of profession + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (pe- + -an)
  • tapaian [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
  • menapai [agent focus] (meN-)

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

  • rosak tapai kerana ragi

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).[1]

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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