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tapasya

tapasya is the alternative form of tapas.

Meaning of tapas

Noun (1)

tapas pl (normally plural, singular tapa)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) 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.
    • The snacks are called tapas because in the old days a piece of toast was served, too, so that you might have a "top" on your glass of sherry, a lid that would prevent the flies from getting into the glass.1986, Jeff Smith, “The Tapas Buffet (Spain)”, in The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 88

Noun (2)

tapas (uncountable)

  1. (Hinduism, Jainism) (The practice of) asceticism and self-discipline.

Questions about tapasya

What is tapasya the alternative form of?
Tapasya is the alternative form of tapas.

Words near tapasya in the dictionary

  1. Taparita
  2. tapas
  3. tapaslike
  4. tapasvi
  5. tapasvis
  6. tapasya
  7. tapau
  8. tapayaxin
  9. tapayaxins
  10. Tapaz
  11. tapdance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tapasya (page history and authors); tapas (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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