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kapu

kapu

English

Noun

kapu (plural kapu)

  1. Taboo, especially in Hawaiian contexts.
    • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 43:
      The operation of taboos – or kapu – kept society ordered, quite cruelly on occasion.

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu

Noun

kapu

  1. taboo

Hungarian

kapu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɒpu]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧pu

Noun

kapu (plural kapuk)

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative kapu kapuk
accusative kaput kapukat
dative kapunak kapuknak
instrumental kapuval kapukkal
causal-final kapuért kapukért
translative kapuvá kapukká
terminative kapuig kapukig
essive-formal kapuként kapukként
essive-modal
inessive kapuban kapukban
superessive kapun kapukon
adessive kapunál kapuknál
illative kapuba kapukba
sublative kapura kapukra
allative kapuhoz kapukhoz
elative kapuból kapukból
delative kapuról kapukról
ablative kaputól kapuktól
Possessive forms of kapu
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kapum kapuim
2nd person sing. kapud kapuid
3rd person sing. kapuja kapui
1st person plural kapunk kapuink
2nd person plural kaputok kapuitok
3rd person plural kapujuk kapuik

Derived terms

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Latvian

Noun

kapu m

  1. accusative singular form of kaps
  2. instrumental singular form of kaps
  3. genitive plural form of kaps
  4. genitive plural form of kapi

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkapu/

Noun

kapu

  1. accusative singular of kapa
  2. instrumental singular of kapa

Swahili

Noun

kapu (ma class, plural makapu)

  1. Augmentative of kikapu: large basket