sapu
/ˈsɑ.puː/verb
sapu is a verb meaning “to eat up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-P-U, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does sapu mean?
verb
- 1
colloquialto eat up
- 2
colloquialto steal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sapu?
- /ˈsɑ.puː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of sapu
- sapus present, singular, he/she/it
- sapuing participle, present
- sapued participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sapu?
Sapu appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does sapu come from?
Borrowed from Malay sapu.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).