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papazoloa.

Headword: 
papazoloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to mess something up, to disorder something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pāpahzoloā
IPAspelling: 
pɑːpɑhsoloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

papazoloa. nitla. (pret. onitlapazolo.) marañar o enhetrar algo, o mezclar platicas impertinentes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 79v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PĀPAHZOLOĀ vt to mess something up, to disorder something / marañar o enhetrar algo o mezclar pláticas impertinentes (M), desordena (Z) [(4)Zp. 41, 43,181]. T has two related forms with PAH instead of PĀ for the initial syllable. redup. PAHZOLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 187.