TAPU

PRONUNCIATION: (TAH-poo)

MEANING: noun: A restriction or prohibition; taboo.
adjective: Sacred, restricted, or forbidden.

ETYMOLOGY: From Māori. The English word taboo is borrowed from Tongan tapu, part of the broader Polynesian concept of sacred restriction. Earliest documented use: 1822.
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YAPU - French baby-talk for "All Gone !" and said with the samesing-song intonation as in English "Aw-Gone": elision of "Il n'y a plus!"

TOPU - "formless;" from Genesis I.2, often associated with "v'BOPU" = "empty" ("...and the Earth was without form, and void...")

TUPU - a platter made of modest amounts of assorted appetizers; intended to be shared by two people dining