to seize something, lay hold of something or press something with the hand (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
māpachoā
IPAspelling:
mɑːpɑtʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen:
MĀPACHOĀ vt to seize something, lay hold of something or press something with the hand / tomar, asir, apretar algo con las manos (S) [(3)Tp. 191]. See MĀ(I)-TL, PACHOĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 137.