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popohua.

Headword: 
popohua.
Principal English Translation: 

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.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
See also: 
nemapopohualoni.