cuapapaca. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

cuapapaca.

Principal English Translation:

to scrub one’s head (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

cuāpahpāca

IPAspelling:

kwɑːpɑhpɑːkɑ

Frances Karttunen:

CUĀPAHPĀC(A) vrefl to scrub one’s head / se lava la cabeza (Z) [(2)Zp.67,169]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, PAHPĀC(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 60.

themes:

Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)