mapopohua. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

mapopohua.

Principal English Translation:

to clean one’s hands (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

māpohpōhua

IPAspelling:

mɑːpohpoːwɑ

Frances Karttunen:

MĀPOHPŌHU(A) vrefl to clean one’s hands / lavarse las manos (S) [(2)Cf. 45V, (I)Rp. 102]. See MĀ(I)-TL, POHPŌHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 137.

themes:

Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)