tappa

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.

tappa

1. Da-infinitive of tapma.

From Old Norse tappa, from Proto-Germanic *tappōną (“to tap, draw in small quantities”).

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]

• tappi
• teppa

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

Derived from French étape.

tappa f (plural tappe)

1. stage, leg, lap, phase, milestone
2. rest, stop, halt

   Synonyms: sosta, fermata

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tappa

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

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

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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

• (tap): more often as tappa upp.

• “tappa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “tappa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “tappa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

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

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑpːɑː/, [ˈtɑpːɑ]
• (Jõgõperä) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑpːɑː/, [ˈtɑpːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpːɑː
• Hyphenation: tap‧pa

tappa

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

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “tappaa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Tallinn