English

Noun

tapas ‎(uncountable)

1. Variety of Spanish small food items or snacks originally served with sherry.
   • 1986, Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine:

     The snacks are called tapas because in the old days a piece of toast was served, too, so that you might have a "top" on your glass of sherry, a lid that would prevent the flies from getting into the glass.

2. Small food items generally.

   Izakaya food is basically Japanese tapas.

Synonyms

• small plate, small plates (see small plates)

Translations

Anagrams

• pasta
• patas

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish tapas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑpɑs/
• Hyphenation: ta‧pas
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑs

Noun

tapas

1. An individual item of tapas; mostly used in plural.

   Mennään syömään tapaksia.

   Let's go and eat some tapas.

Declension

French

Verb

tapas

1. second-person singular past historic of taper

Portuguese

Verb

tapas

1. second-person singular (tu) present indicative of tapar

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

tapas f pl

1. plural of tapa
2. (Argentina) Dough for making empanadas (pastries).

Verb

tapas

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of tapar.

Tagalog

Noun

tapas

1. act of cutting or lopping evenly the top, as of a tree
2. act or manner of cutting off the husk of a coconut fruit with a sharp bolo; dehusking of coconut

Synonyms

• (cutting the top): palas, pagpalas
• (dehusking of coconut): pagtapas, pagtatapas

Adjective

tapás

1. lopped or cut off evenly

Synonyms

• palas

Noun

tapás

1. typical river fish