tapu

Borrowed from Maori tapu. Doublet of kapu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːpuː/
• Rhymes: -ɑːpu

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.

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.

• noa

• APTU, Tupa, UATP, patu, puta

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

tapu f

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

tapu

1. first-person singular past indicative of tapt

Malecite-Passamaquoddy numbers ^(edit)

	20
[a], [b] ←  1	2	3  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: nis, tapu     Ordinal: nisewey     Adverbial: nisokehs     Adnominal: nisuwok, nisonul

From Proto-Algonquian *ta·paw-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.pu/, [ˈda˧˦.bu]

tapu

1. (in counting) synonym of nis (“two”)

• Passamaquoddy-Maliseet language portal
• LeSourd, Philip S. (1993) Accent and Syllable Structure in Passamaquoddy, New York: Garland Publishing

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu.^[1] Cognate with Hawaiian kapu.

tapu

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

tapu

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

   Synonym: ārai

   Antonym: noa

• → English: tapu

Compare also with Rarotongan tapu “mole, birthmark” (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tapu (usually reduplicated as taputapu)

1. mark or indentation left on a surface

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

tapu

1. question

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

tapu

1. sacred, taboo

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

tapu

1. taboo

tapu

1. taboo

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.pu/

From English top.

tapu

1. on, on top of

From English stop.

tapu

1. to stop

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.pu/

tapu

1. taboo
2. oath, pledge

tapu

1. sacred, taboo, forbidden

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “tapu” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.pu/

tapu

1. an anchor

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

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

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

tapu

1. (stative) to be forbidden, taboo

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

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”).

tapu (definite accusative tapuyu, plural tapular)

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

• tapmak

• “tapu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tapu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

From Ternate tapu (“anchor”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪a.pu/

tapu

1. an anchor

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