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cuapaca.

Headword: 
cuapaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to wash one's head (reflexive) or to wash someone's head (transitive)(see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quapaca
Alonso de Molina: 

quapaca. nino. (pret. oninoquapac vel. oninoquapacac.) lauarse la cabeza.
quapaca. nite. (pret. onite quapac.l. onitequapacac.) lauar a otro la cabeza.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 85r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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