tapa vs cloth

tapa and cloth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tapa	Yes	No	No	No
cloth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cloth is a hypernym of tapa; that is, cloth is a word with a broader meaning than tapa:

tapa: a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of tapa include fabric, material, textile.

tapa (noun)	cloth (noun)
a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus