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tapta

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tap-ta
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An imaginary creature, in Meitei folklore, described by a mother to frighten her child to stop crying, which was misunderstood by a tiger for a man, who mistakenly mount on the very tiger, mistaking it as a horse, thereby resulting in a panicking situation for both the thief and the tiger.

Etymology

From the Meitei language words, "tap" (the sound of rain water drops falling on the ground) and "ta" (literally meaning "to fall").

Inflected Forms

Taptas (plural)

Questions

What does tapta mean?
An imaginary creature, in Meitei folklore, described by a mother to frighten her child to stop crying, which was misunderstood by a tiger for a man, who mistakenly mount on the very tiger, mistaking it as a horse, thereby resulting in a panicking situation for both the thief and the tiger.
Where does tapta come from?
From the Meitei language words, "tap" (the sound of rain water drops falling on the ground) and "ta" (literally meaning "to fall").

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