tapay noun English. A mixture of hulled rice, sugarcane stalk, a certain grass, chili, ginger, two kinds of tree root and two kinds of leaves, which with some other ingredients is pounded together, dampened, dried for at least a week and then mixed with cooked rice or cassava as rice wine starter. verb English. Mixes tapay with cooked rice. Example sentence: Subanen. Su ginaman, sa' ndi' tepayan, ndi' metini'. English. Rice cake which isn't mixed no wine starter won"t dissolve.