to grope, pad (walk hesitatingly, especially in the dark) · to grope, frisk (search by feeling)
çekim: geçmiş tappte · ortaç getappt · şimdiki tappt · ulaç tappend
köken: From Middle High German tāpen with sporadic shortening before /p/ (as in Wappen, Schuppe from Middle High German wāpen, schuope). The verb is of onomatopoeic origin and comparable to the interjection tapp imitating soft walking sounds, though this is attested much later.
to touch, to feel (transitive: to sense by touch) · to grope (to search by feeling)
çekim: geçmiş apalpei · ortaç apalpado · şimdiki apalpa
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese palpar, borrowed from Latin palpāre (“to touch softly”). Cognate with Portuguese apalpar, Spanish palpar. Doublet of poupar, which was inherited.
köken: From Old Norse fálma, perhaps imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpō (“to pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”).