different between tapu vs kapu

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??pu?/

Noun

tapu (countable and uncountable, plural tapus)

1. Alternative form of taboo

Verb

tapu (third-person singular simple present tapus, present participle tapuing, simple past and past participle tapued)

1. Alternative form of taboo
   • 1859, Arthur Saunders Thomson, The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present (page 105)

     Tapuing seeds and fields are types of the English laws for protecting out-door property; women tapued to men is matrimony; tapuing sick persons is analogous to the quarantine orders against lepers, the plague and the yellow fever.

Anagrams

• Tupa, UATP, patu, puta

Kaurna

Noun

1. the common Australian fly (musca vetustissima)
2. one of two men at either side of the line at the beginning of the Kaurna circumcision ceremony

Latvian

Noun

tapu f

1. accusative singular form of tapa
2. instrumental singular form of tapa
3. genitive plural form of tapa

Verb

tapu

1. 1st person singular past indicative form of tapt

Malecite-Passamaquoddy

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *ta·paw-.

Numeral

tapu

1. two

Synonyms

• nis

Maori

Etymology

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

Adjective

tapu

1. holy, sacred, consecrated
2. restricted, prohibited, forbidden

Noun

tapu

1. taboo, restriction (as a spiritual or supernatural condition)

Synonyms

• ?rai

Quechua

Noun

tapu

1. question

Declension

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Adjective

tapu

1. sacred, taboo

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Noun

tapu

1. taboo

Adjective

tapu

1. taboo

Sranan Tongo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.pu/

Etymology 1

From English top.

Preposition

tapu

1. on, on top of

Etymology 2

From English stop.

Verb

tapu

1. to stop

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.pu/

Noun

tapu

1. taboo
2. oath, pledge

Adjective

tapu

1. sacred, taboo, forbidden

References

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “tapu” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu. Cognates include Hawaiian kapu and Samoan tapu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.pu/
• Hyphenation: ta?pu

Verb

tapu

1. (stative) to be forbidden, taboo

Derived terms

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 373

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (tapu).

Noun

tapu (definite accusative tapuyu, plural tapular)

1. deed (document)
2. deed office, for example the registrar of landownership

Declension

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