Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

talipot

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tal-ipot
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tall palm tree, Corypha umbraculifera, from Sri Lanka and southern India, having very large leaves which were used as a material to write on.

Example Sentences

"On Sunday, Oct. 12. being ſtored vvith all things needful for their Journey, viz. Ten Days Proviſion, a Baſin to boil their Provision in, two Calabaſhes to fetch VVater in, and tvvo great Tallipat Leaves for Tents, with Jaggory, Svveet-meats, Tobacco, Betell, Tinder-Boxes, and a Deer-Skin for Shoes, to keep their Feet from Thorns, becauſe to them they chiefly truſted."
"The leaves of the talipot or palmyra tree were rolled and boiled and oiled so as to prepare them for use in the writing of a manuscript."

Etymology

Borrowed from Sinhalese [script needed] (talapata), Malayalam [script needed] (tālipat), from Sanskrit [Term?].

Origin

Source language: Sanskrit

Inflected Forms

talipots (plural)

Synonyms

talipot palm corypha umbraculifera

Questions

What does talipot mean?: A tall palm tree, Corypha umbraculifera, from Sri Lanka and southern India, having very large leaves which were used as a material to write on.
Where does talipot come from?: It is traced to Sanskrit.

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