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.

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

From French étape.

tappa f (plural tappe)

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

   Synonyms: sosta, fermata

• tappone

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.

• tapp
• tappa av
• tappa bort
• tappa från
• tappa upp
• tappad bakom en vagn
• tappning

• tappa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tappa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tappa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) 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], 2nd edition, Tallinn