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adap

adap is the alternative form of attap.

Meaning of attap

Noun

attap (countable and uncountable, plural attaps)

  1. Nipa; a palm tree of the species Nypa fruticans.
  2. (Malaysia, Singapore) Thatch made from leaves of the nipa palm.
  3. (countable) A section of attap thatch.
    • I therefore sent my two men immediately to buy "ataps" (palm-leaf thatch) to repair the roof, and the next day, with the assistance of eight of the Sultan's men, got all my stores and furniture carried up and pretty comfortably arranged.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 37

Proper noun (1) capitalized: ADAP

ADAP

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of AIDS Drugs Assistance Programs, an American institution that pays for HIV medicines for those that make less than 50,000 US dollars a year.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Adap

Adap

  1. A language of Bhutan.

Forms of adap

pluraladaps

Questions about adap

What does adap mean?
Adap means a language of Bhutan.
What is adap the alternative form of?
Adap is the alternative form of attap.
What part of speech is adap?
Adap is a proper noun.

Words near adap in the dictionary

  1. Adank
  2. adansonia
  3. adansonian
  4. adansonias
  5. Adao
  6. adap
  7. Adapa
  8. adapalene
  9. Adapazari
  10. Adapazarı
  11. adapedont

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: adap (page history and authors); ADAP (page history and authors); Adap (page history and authors); attap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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