tappan

From Malay tapang.

tappan (plural tappans)

1. An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 125:

     The honey-bee of Borneo very generally hangs its combs under the branches of the Tappan, a tree which towers above all others in the forest, and whose smooth cylindrical trunk often rises a hundred feet without a branch.

   • 1894 January 6, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 22, column 2:

     Two minutes more, and the top-knot of the lofty tappan before the house was thrashing the reeds out of the thatch—there was a shriek as of a thousand buzz-saws—a fusillade of branches and pebbles—and the squall had gone yelling away into the east.

According to Erin Serracino Inglott, from Spanish taponar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtap.pan/
• Rhymes: -appan

tappan (imperfect jtappan, past participle mtappan, verbal noun titpin)

1. to fog up, to steam up
2. (photography) to fog

   Synonym: vvela

3. to press, to trample