thumb|The thief escaping from the tiger
thumb|The thief escaping from the tiger
Tapta (/tap-taa/) is a character in Meitei folklore of Ancient Manipur. It is a creature described by a mother's imagination to her child, to stop their cry. Etymologically, "Tapta" is made of two words, "Tap" (sound of water drops falling on the ground) and "Ta" (literally meaning "to fall") in Meitei (Manipuri).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).