tapas

Etymology 1


From, the of  (from the fact that plates of tapas were originally placed on the tops of glasses of alcoholic beverages as lids), from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) A variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks such as croquettes, cured meat, potato salad, and seafood, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages as well.

Usage notes
Tapas takes agreement when parsed as a group of small dishes, or  agreement when parsed as a single order or set dish. Thus one can say:

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: тапас
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 塔帕斯
 * Cyrillic: тапас
 * Czech: tapas
 * Danish: tapas
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: tapas
 * Georgian: ტაპასი
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: טאפס
 * Hungarian: tapas
 * Japanese: タパス
 * Korean: 타파스
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: tapas
 * Polish: tapas
 * Portuguese:, petiscos
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: та́пас

Etymology 2
From, ultimately from. Related to.

Noun

 * 1)  (The practice of) asceticism and self-discipline.

Translations

 * Bengali: তপস
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Hindi:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Newar: तपः
 * Odia:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ตบะ
 * Ukrainian: та́пас

Etymology
From.

Noun

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

Noun

 * 1) coir for washing kitchen utensils, made of coarse-textured synthetic fibers.

Etymology 2
From, from , plural of , with original sense of “top”.

Noun

 * : a variety of Spanish small food items or snacks, originally served with sherry.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) act of dehusking a coconut
 * 2) act of cutting off the top evenly
 * 1) act of cutting off the top evenly

Adjective

 * 1) lopped or cut off evenly

Noun

 * 1) a kind of typical river fish