See also: tapo, tāpu, and täpu

English

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Noun

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tapu (countable and uncountable, plural tapus)

  1. (New Zealand) Alternative form of taboo
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
      Spies were sent to test the Moriori’s mettle by violating tapu & despoiling holy sites.

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tapu (third-person singular simple present tapus, present participle tapuing, simple past and past participle tapued)

  1. (New Zealand) Alternative form of taboo
    • 1859, Arthur Saunders Thomson, The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present, page 105:
      Tapuing seeds and fields are types of the English laws for protecting out-door property; women tapued to men is matrimony; tapuing sick persons is analogous to the quarantine orders against lepers, the plague and the yellow fever.

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Anagrams

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Kaurna

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Noun

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tapu

  1. the common Australian fly (musca vetustissima)
  2. one of two men at either side of the line at the beginning of the Kaurna circumcision ceremony

Latvian

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Noun

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tapu f

  1. inflection of tapa:
    1. accusative/instrumental singular
    2. genitive plural

Verb

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tapu

  1. first-person singular past indicative of tapt

Malecite-Passamaquoddy

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Malecite-Passamaquoddy numbers (edit)
20
[a], [b] ←  1 2 3  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: nis, tapu
    Ordinal: nisewey
    Adverbial: nisokehs
    Adnominal: nisuwok, nisonul

Etymology

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From Proto-Algonquian *ta·paw-.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈta.pu/, [ˈda˧˦.bu]

Numeral

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tapu

  1. (in counting) Synonym of nis (two)

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Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Cognate with Hawaiian kapu.

Adjective

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tapu

  1. holy, sacred, consecrated
  2. restricted, prohibited, forbidden

Noun

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tapu

  1. taboo, restriction (as a spiritual or supernatural condition)

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Antonyms

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Descendants

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  • English: tapu

References

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  • tapu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Quechua

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Noun

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tapu

  1. question

Declension

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Rapa Nui

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Adjective

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tapu

  1. sacred, taboo

Samoan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Noun

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tapu

  1. taboo

Adjective

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tapu

  1. taboo

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology 1

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From English top.

Preposition

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tapu

  1. on, on top of

Etymology 2

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From English stop.

Verb

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tapu

  1. to stop

Tahitian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

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Noun

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tapu

  1. taboo
  2. oath, pledge

Adjective

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tapu

  1. sacred, taboo, forbidden

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Ternate

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Noun

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tapu

  1. an anchor

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tokelauan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *tapu. Cognates include Hawaiian kapu and Samoan tapu.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈta.pu]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧pu

Verb

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tapu

  1. (stative) to be forbidden, taboo

Derived terms

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References

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  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 373

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish طاپو (tapu, service; demesne allocated in return for service), from Old Anatolian Turkish طاپو (tapu); equivalent to tap- (to serve) +‎ -u (deverbal nominal suffix). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tapuġ, service, servitude).

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tapu (definite accusative tapuyu, plural tapular)

  1. deed (document)
  2. deed office, for example the registrar of landownership

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative tapu
Definite accusative tapuyu
Singular Plural
Nominative tapu tapular
Definite accusative tapuyu tapuları
Dative tapuya tapulara
Locative tapuda tapularda
Ablative tapudan tapulardan
Genitive tapunun tapuların
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Further reading

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  • tapu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

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West Makian

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Etymology

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From Ternate tapu (anchor).

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Noun

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tapu

  1. an anchor

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics