tapa verb English. Smokes, dries partially cooked meat over a fire and leaves it suspended over fire table, a method of preserving meat; heats coconut to prepare copra. Example sentence: Subanen. Kali' ami peglaam seda', melaun gupia mialap nami. Sug duma, tinapa; sug duma, ingkag; duma, ininames su mekaika' dun. English. When we went fishing, we really caught a lot. We roasted some, we dried some, and we preserved the smallest ones in salt. Generic. engkag