tapi

tapi

1. inflection of tapar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• ketapi, tetapi

Shortened form of ketapi, from Malay tetapi, from Sanskrit तथापि (tathāpi).

tapi

1. alternative form of ketapi

• IPA^(key): /ta.pi/

tapi (feminine tapie, masculine plural tapis, feminine plural tapies)

1. past participle of tapir

tapi (feminine tapie, masculine plural tapis, feminine plural tapies)

1. hidden; crouching

• “tapi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• pait, paît
• pâti

From French tapis (“carpet”).

• IPA^(key): /tapi/

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tapi

1. carpet, rug

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 188

• Rhymes: -aːpɪ

tapi

1. indefinite dative singular of tap

Inherited from Malay tapi, clipping of tetapi, from Sanskrit तथापि (tathāpi).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtapi/ [ˈt̪a.pi]
• Rhymes: -api
• Syllabification: ta‧pi

tapi

1. alternative form of tetapi

   Kecil tapi berani.

   Small but courageous.

• “tapi”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

tapi

1. second-person singular past indicative of tapt

• tp (text messaging)

Clipping of tetapi, from Sanskrit तथापि (tathāpi).

• (Literary Standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtapi/ [ˈt̪a.pi]
• Rhymes: -api, -pi, -i
• Hyphenation: ta‧pi

tapi (Jawi spelling تاڤي)

1. alternative form of tetapi (“but”)

   Saya nak beli fon ni, tapi tak cukup duit.

   I want to buy this phone, but I don't have enough money.

• > Indonesian: tapi (inherited)
• → West Makian: tapi

• "tapi" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "tapi" at PRPM first version)

tapi

1. bean

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapiq (“apron; skirt”). Compare Cebuano tapi, Maranao tampi, and Malay tapih. Doublet of tapis.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈpiʔ/ [t̪ɐˈpɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧pi

tapî (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜉᜒ)

1. apron

   Synonym: delantal

2. any piece of cloth used by women to cover or protect the body (while bathing, working, washing, etc.)

• “tapi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tapiq₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• pait, pati, atip, pita

Borrowed from Malay tapi, from Malay tetapi, from Sanskrit तथापि (tathāpi).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪a.pi/

tapi

1. but, however

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

tapi

1. mother