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tallapoi

tallapoi is the obsolete form of talapoin.

Meaning of talapoin

Noun

talapoin (plural talapoins)

  1. A monkey from one of two species of Old World monkeys, of the genus Miopithecus, distinguished by a short-snouted head with a hairless face.
  2. (archaic) A Buddhist monk or priest.

Forms of tallapoi

pluraltallapois

Origin of tallapoi

From French talapoin, from Portuguese talapão, from Mon တၠဳ ပိုဲ (tloe poi, “our lord”).

Questions about tallapoi

What is tallapoi the obsolete form of?
Tallapoi is the obsolete form of talapoin.

Words near tallapoi in the dictionary

  1. Tallangatta East
  2. Tallangatta South
  3. Tallangatta Valley
  4. Tallant
  5. Tallants
  6. tallapoi
  7. tallapois
  8. Tallapoosa
  9. Tallapoosa County
  10. Tallarico
  11. Tallaricos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tallapoi (page history and authors); talapoin (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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