to clean something (see Karttunen) or restore something (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
pohpōhua, popoa
IPAspelling:
pohpoːwɑ
Alonso de Molina:
popoa. nitla. (pret. onitlapopouh.) alimpiar algo, o restituir lo ageno. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
POHPŌHU(A) vt to clean something / alimpiar algo (M) M combines this with PŌPŌHU(A) 'to pay something' in a single entry.
POHPŌHUILIĀ applic. POHPŌHU(A).
POHPŌHUALŌ nonact. POHPŌHU(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 201.