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kapus

kapus is the plural of kapu.

Meaning of kapu

Noun

kapu (plural kapu or kapus)

  1. Taboo, especially in Hawaiian contexts.
    • The operation of taboos – or kapu – kept society ordered, quite cruelly on occasion.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 43

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Noun capitalized: Kapus

Kapus

  1. (plural) plural of Kapu

Questions about kapus

What is kapus the plural of?
Kapus is the plural of kapu.
What part of speech is kapus?
Kapus is a noun.

Words near kapus in the dictionary

  1. kapukas
  2. Kapur
  3. Kapur-Toriello syndrome
  4. Kapurs
  5. Kapurthala
  6. kapus
  7. Kapuskasing
  8. kapusta
  9. Kapustin Yar
  10. kapustinite
  11. kaput

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kapus (page history and authors); Kapus (page history and authors); kapu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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