different between kapo vs kapu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kapo, from Italian capo.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Wikipedia says this ety is uncertain and suggests several others.”)

Noun

kapo (plural kapos)

1. (historical) A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.

Translations

Anagrams

• poak

Burushaski

Noun

kapo

1. cuckoo

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kapo/
• Hyphenation: ka?po

Etymology 1

From Latin caput and Italian capo.

Noun

kapo (accusative singular kapon, plural kapoj, accusative plural kapojn)

1. head
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, "Proverbaro Esperanta":

     Kiom da kapoj, tiom da opinioj.

     However many heads, that many opinions.

Derived terms

• skeletkapo

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (káppa, “the letter ?”).

Noun

kapo (accusative singular kapon, plural kapoj, accusative plural kapojn)

1. kappa

Finnish

Alternative forms

• capo

Noun

kapo

1. (music) capotasto, capo

Declension

Anagrams

• pako, poka

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kapo, from Italian capo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.po/

Noun

kapo m (plural kapos)

1. (historical) kapo

Further reading

• “kapo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ido

Noun

kapo (plural kapi)

1. head

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.p?/

Etymology 1

From German Kapo, from Italian capo, from Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-.

Noun

kapo m pers (indeclinable) or kapo f (indeclinable)

1. (historical) kapo (male or female)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kapo

1. vocative singular of kapa

Further reading

• kapo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• kapo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

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

Noun

kapu (plural kapu or kapus)

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.

Anagrams

• Kaup, puka

'Are'are

Noun

kapu

1. cup

References

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?pu/, [?k?pu]
• Rhymes: -?pu
• Syllabification: ka?pu

Etymology 1

Clipping of kapteeni.

Noun

kapu

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

Declension

Synonyms

• kapteeni

Etymology 2

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

Noun

kapu

1. (dialectal) (wooden) pin

Anagrams

• paku

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

kapu

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

Descendants

• ? English: kapu

Verb

kapu

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

Derived terms

• ho?okapu: to make something taboo; to consecrate, to make holy

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English tub.

Noun

kapu

1. a tub

Etymology 3

Borrowing from English cap.

Noun

kapu

1. a cap

Derived terms

• p?pale kapu (“cap”, literally “cap hat”)

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?pu]
• Hyphenation: ka?pu
• Rhymes: -pu

Noun

kapu (plural kapuk)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Laboya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ka?pu]

Noun

kapu

1. lime

References

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

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): /?kapu/

Noun

kapu

1. accusative/instrumental singular of kapa

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

kapu (ma class, plural makapu)

1. Augmentative of kikapu: large basket