English Explanatory Dictionary

kapu

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Taboo, especially in Hawaiian contexts.

noun

A member of a caste of agriculturists found primarily in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Word forms

kapu kapus

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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