tapay

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧pay
• IPA^(key): /ˈtapaj/ [ˈt̪aː.pai̯]

Noun

tapay

1. cockscomb, crest

Central Bikol

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtapaj/ [ˈta.paɪ̯]
• Hyphenation: ta‧pay

Noun

tápay (Basahan spelling ᜆᜉᜌ᜔)

1. dough

   Synonym: masa

Derived terms

• tapayan
• tinapay

Maranao

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapay.

Noun

tapay

1. yeast

References

• Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967), A Maranao Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press

Sundanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapay.

Noun

tapay (Sundanese spelling ᮒᮕᮚ᮪)

1. (cooking, Banten) tapai: a traditional Asian food made from fermented cassava

   Synonym: peuyeum

Further reading

• "TAPAJ", in Coolsma, S (1913), Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• tapai — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapay (“rice wine, yeast, fermented rice”). Compare Ilocano tapey (“rice wine”), Kankanaey tapey, Kapampangan tape, Central Bikol tapay, Maranao tapay (“yeast”), Malay tapai (“yeast, leavened cake”), and Javanese ꦠꦥꦺ (tapé, “sweet fermented rice dish”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtapaj/ [ˈt̪aː.paɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -apaj
• Syllabification: ta‧pay

Noun

tapay (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜉᜌ᜔)

1. dough

   Synonym: masa

2. (childish) bread

   Synonym: tinapay

Derived terms

• magtapay
• magtinapay
• mananapay
• pagtapayan
• tapayan
• tapayin
• tinapay
• tinapayan
• tumapay

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• patay, payat