kapu
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 4
Definition of kapu
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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Taboo, especially in Hawaiian contexts.
“The operation of taboos – or kapu – kept society ordered, quite cruelly on occasion.”
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noun
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Taboo, especially in Hawaiian contexts.
“The operation of taboos – or kapu – kept society ordered, quite cruelly on occasion.”
- A member of a caste of agriculturists found primarily in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Etymology
From Hawaiian kapu, from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of taboo.
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