tapera

tapera

1. third-person singular future of taper

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtapəra/ [ˈt̪a.pə.ra]
• Rhymes: -apəra
• Syllabification: ta‧pe‧ra

tapera (plural tapera-tapera)

1. (finance, real estate) syllabic abbreviation of tabungan perumahan rakyat (“public housing savings”)

• “tapera” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Tupi tapera.

tapera f (plural taperas)

1. ruin; old, abandoned house

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida. Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil. São Paulo. Global. 2013.

Borrowed from Guaraní [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /taˈpeɾa/ [t̪aˈpe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ta‧pe‧ra

tapera f (plural taperas)

1. (South America) a ruin or an old, abandoned house

• “tapera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from English taper + -a.

tapera

1. (transitive) taper; to make thinner or narrower at one end
2. (intransitive) taper; to become thinner or narrower at one end
3. (ambitransitive) taper; to diminish gradually

• taperande
• tapering