tallapoi

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A form of talapoin — 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.

OriginFrench talapoin ← Portuguese talapão ← mnw တၠဳ ပိုဲ →
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Meanings

nountallapoi (plural tallapois)

plural tallapois

  1. obsoleteBuddhismObsolete form of talapoin.
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    1667, The English Rogue, by Richard Headhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/50416/50416-h/50416-h.htm Their Priest, which they call Tallapoi, are seeming very zealously superstitious: they somewhat incline to Mahometanism; for they pretend they will not drink wine, being forbidden it by their Law, yet are abominable hypocrites: for, though they wear a sheep-skin with the wool thereon, not suffering any hair to be on their bodies, and in shew lead a chaste life, yet I found the contrary; as you shall understand by what past between one of them and my self.

Origin

  1. mnwတၠဳ ပိုဲ“our lord”
  2. Portuguesetalapão
  3. Frenchtalapoin
  4. Englishtallapoi

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

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tallapoi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tallapoi

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Chicago

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