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mapatla.

Headword: 
mapatla.
Principal English Translation: 

to defend oneself or to put up resistance (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
mɑːpɑːtɬɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

mapatla. nino. (pret. oninomapatlac.) defenderse, o resistir.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MĀPĀTLA vrefl,vt to defend oneself, to put up resistance; to beat something with one’s hand, to mix something by hand / defenderse o resistir (M), lo bate con la mano, lo revuelve con la mano (T) [(3)Tp. 191]. See MĀ(I)-TL, PĀTLA.

MĀPĀTLALŌ nonact. MĀPĀTLA
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 137.

themes: 
Protest, Resistance
War, Conflict