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mapiya.

Headword: 
mapiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to hold something in one’s hand (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māpiya
IPAspelling: 
mɑːpiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀPIY(A) vt; pret: -PIX - -PĪX to hold something in one’s hand / lo tiene en la mano (T) [(3)Tp. 191]. See MĀ(I)-TL, PIY(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 137.