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mapapaca.

Headword: 
mapapaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to wash one’s hands (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māpahpāca
IPAspelling: 
mɑːpɑhpɑːkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀPAHPĀC(A) vrefl to wash one’s hands / se lava las manos (Z) [(3)Tp. 153, (2) Zp. 76, 171]. See MA(I)-TL, PĀC(A).

MĀPAHPĀCO nonact. MĀPAHPĀC(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 137.