English

Noun

tapu ‎(plural tapus)

1. Alternative form of taboo

   • 2004: Spies were sent to test the Moriori’s mettle by violating tapu & despoiling holy sites. — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• puta

Latvian

Noun

tapu f

1. accusative singular form of tapa
2. instrumental singular form of tapa
3. genitive plural form of tapa

Verb

tapu

1. 1st person singular past indicative form of tapt

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu

Adjective

tapu

1. holy

Noun

tapu

1. taboo

Synonyms

• ārai

Quechua

Noun

tapu

1. question

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Adjective

tapu

1. sacred, taboo

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu

Noun

tapu

1. taboo

Adjective

tapu

1. taboo

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu

Noun

tapu

1. taboo
2. oath, pledge

Adjective

tapu

1. sacred, taboo, forbidden

References

• 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.

Turkish

Noun

tapu ‎(definite accusative tapuyu, plural tapular)

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