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tappa

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English

Noun

tappa (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of tapa (“cloth made from mulberry bark”).
    • 1846, Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life:
      These marks produce the corduroy sort of stripes discernable in the tappa in its finished state.

Estonian

Verb

tappa

  1. Da-infinitive of tapma.

Icelandic

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dab- (“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (“to beat, strike, stun, be speechless”). Related to German tappen (“to grope, fumble”), Dutch deppen (“to dab”). Related to dab.

Verb

tappa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative tappaði, supine tappað)

  1. to put a liquid in a container, to bottle (ex : wine) [with dative]
  2. to tap [with dative]

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtap.pa/
  • Rhymes: -appa
  • Hyphenation: tàp‧pa

Etymology 1

From French étape.

Noun

tappa f (plural tappe)

  1. stage, leg, lap, phase, milestone
  2. rest, stop, halt
    Synonyms: sosta, fermata
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tappa

  1. inflection of tappare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse tapa (“to lose”). In the sense “to tap” from Middle Low German tappen.

Pronunciation

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Verb

tappa (present tappar, preterite tappade, supine tappat, imperative tappa)

  1. to drop (something by mistake)
  2. to lose
    Han tappade kontrollen över sitt drickande.
    He lost control of his drinking.
    Hon har tappat förståndet
    She has lost her mind
  3. to tap; to draw off liquid from a vessel

Usage notes

  • (tap): more often as tappa upp.

Conjugation

More information active, passive ...

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

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Votic

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from tappaa according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Votic or recent spelling standards of the language.

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tappadak, from Proto-Uralic *tappa-.

Pronunciation

Verb

tappa

  1. (transitive) to kill
  2. (transitive) to beat (flax)
  3. (transitive) to spend (money)

Inflection

More information Conjugation of (type III-2/õssa, pp-p gradation), Indicative ...

References

  • Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “tappaa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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