kupu

• IPA^(key): [ˈkupu]

kupu f

1. accusative singular of kupa

From Proto-Finnic *kupu. Related to Karelian kupu, Ludian kubu and Veps kubu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkupu/, [ˈkupu]
• Rhymes: -upu
• Syllabification^(key): ku‧pu
• Hyphenation^(key): ku‧pu

kupu

1. dome (architectural element)
2. dome (an object shaped like an upset bowl)
3. canopy (parachute cloth)
4. crop, craw (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds and insects)
5. stomach, especially a full or round one
6. bulb (rounded solid object)
7. synonym of kerä (“head”) (round clump of leaves, like those of cabbage or lettuce)
8. (botany) homochlamydeous perianth
9. (physics) antinode (of a standing wave)

• kupera

• “kupu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• puku

From Proto-Polynesian *tupu, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq, from Proto-Austronesian *Cubuq (compare Malay tumbuh).

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.pu/

kupu(intransitive)

1. to sprout, to germinate
2. to grow, to increase
3. to occur

• hoʻokupu (verb)
• kupu wale (“occur by chance”, verb)
• kupukupu (“surge forth”, verb)
• kupuna (“starting point”)

kupu

1. sprout
2. growth
3. offspring
4. upstart

• kupukupu (“fishbone fern”)

• kupu in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

kupu

1. a butterfly

From Proto-Polynesian *kupu (cognates include Hawaiian ʻupu (“thought, recollection”), Tahitian ʻupu (“prayer, invocation”) and Samoan ʻupu),^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *puku by metathesis, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bukuh (compare with Malay buku). Sense of "word" comes from metaphorical comparison of segments of written speech with culms of bamboo.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.pu/

kupu

1. word, vocabulary
2. saying, talk
3. message, statement
4. utterance
5. lyric
6. (archaic, obsolete) culm (of grass, bamboo)

kupu

1. (intransitive) to speak

• kupukupu (“speak at length”, verb)

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kupu”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 183
• “kupu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): [ˈku.pu]
• Hyphenation: ku‧pu

From Proto-Polynesian *kupu. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻupu and Samoan 'upu.

kupu

1. word
2. statement
3. remark

kupu

1. (stative) to be obedient

From Proto-Polynesian *kupu. Cognates include Tongan kupu and Samoan 'upu.

kupu

1. pandanus fruit

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[4], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 169