kapu

From Hawaiian kapu, from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of taboo.

kapu (plural kapu or kapus)

1. Taboo, especially in Hawaiian contexts.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 43:

     The operation of taboos – or kapu – kept society ordered, quite cruelly on occasion.

• Kaup, puka

kapu

1. cup

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑpu/, [ˈkɑ̝pu]
• Rhymes: -ɑpu
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧pu

Clipping of kapteeni +‎ -u

kapu (colloquial)

1. captain (such as a captain of a ship)

• kapteeni

Possibly from dialectal Swedish kabb, but compare also kapista and kapula.

kapu (dialectal)

1. (wooden) pin

• paku

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Cognate with Maori tapu.

kapu

1. taboo, prohibition
2. something sacred or holy, and thus prohibited or forbidden to most

• → English: kapu

kapu

1. (stative) to be prohibited; to be consecrated, to be holy

• hoʻokapu: to make something taboo; to consecrate, to make holy

Borrowing from English tub.

kapu

1. a tub

Borrowing from English cap.

kapu

1. a cap

• pāpale kapu (“cap”, literally “cap hat”)

From a Turkic language, compare Old Turkic kapug, Ottoman Turkish قاپو (kapu, “gate”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒpu]

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• Hyphenation: ka‧pu
• Rhymes: -pu

kapu (plural kapuk)

1. gate, entrance, (street) door
2. (sports) goal

kapu

• kapu in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Proto-Cariban *kapu; compare Apalaí kapu, Trió kapu, Wayana kapu, Ye'kwana kaju, Waiwai ka', Akawaio ka', Macushi ka', Pemon ka', Yao (South America) capou.

• (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA^(key): [kaːpu]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [kaʔpu]

kapu (possessed kapuru)

1. sky
2. heaven, mythological residence of God (tamusi) and certain benevolent spirits in the sky
3. clouds collectively

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 291
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “kapu”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 206; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 199

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaːpu]

kapu

1. lime

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “kapu”, in Lamboya word list‎, Leiden: LexiRumah

kapu m

1. inflection of kaps:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural
2. genitive plural of kapi

• IPA^(key): /ˈkapu/

kapu

1. accusative/instrumental singular of kapa

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kapu (ma class, plural makapu)

1. Augmentative of kikapu: large basket

From Proto-Cariban *kapu. Compare Ye'kwana kaju, Macushi ka', Panare ka', Wayana kapu, Kari'na kapu.

kapu

1. sky

kapu

1. Archaic form of kapı.