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
• Hyphenation^(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, Tavastia, Ostrobothnia, Kymenlaakso, Central Finland)

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]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ka‧pu
• Rhymes: -pu

kapu (plural kapuk)

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

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
non-attributive possessive - singular	kapué	kapuké
non-attributive possessive - plural	kapuéi	kapukéi

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

• 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^[2], 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^[3], Paris, 1956, page 199

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaːpu]

kapu

1. lime

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “kapu”, in Lamboya word list‎^[4], 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

From Proto-Oceanic *kabu (“cup, ladle” – compare with Tahitian ʻapu “cavity, shell [of gourds etc.]”, Samoan ʻapu and Tongan kapu “receptacle from rolled up leaf”)^[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kabuq (“ladle, dipper” – compare with Cebuano kabo).^[2][3]

kapu

1. scoop, ladle

   Synonyms: koko, tīkoko

2. palm of one's hand
3. instep of one's foot

kapu

1. to ladle, to scoop up

   Synonyms: koko, tīkoko

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kapu”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 114
• “kapu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

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.