tapu

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

tapu (countable and uncountable, plural tapus)

1. 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. 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.

• 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

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. Cognate with Hawaiian kapu.

tapu

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

tapu

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

• ārai

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, 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, Pacific linguistics