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tlapoyahua.

Headword: 
tlapoyahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to be getting dark

Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 43.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapoyaua
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpoyɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapoyaua. (pret. otlapoyauac.) hazerse ya noche, o anochecer.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 132r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPOYĀHUA for night to fall, to get dark / hacerse ya noche o anochecer (M) [(1)Cf.97r]. See POYĀHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 293.