to celebrate; play; amuse or enjoy oneself; to take pleasure (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
papacoa
IPAspelling:
pɑhpɑːkowɑ
Frances Karttunen:
PAHPĀCOHUA nonact. PAHPĀQU(I). PAHPĀQU(I) to enjoy oneself, to take great pleasure / tomar placer y alegrarse (M) M also has transitive papaqui 'to repeatedly enjoy something' R consistently has PAHPAHQU(I) for PAHPĀQU(I) and its derivations. redup. PĀQU(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 184.