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mapopohua.

Headword: 
mapopohua.
Principal English Translation: 

to clean one’s hands (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māpohpōhua
IPAspelling: 
mɑːpohpoːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀPOHPŌHU(A) vrefl to clean one’s hands / lavarse las manos (S) [(2)Cf. 45V, (I)Rp. 102]. See MĀ(I)-TL, POHPŌHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 137.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)