tapa vs fabric

tapa and fabric both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of tapa include cloth, material, textile.

tapa (noun)	fabric (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	the underlying structure