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Kapo vs Kapu - What's the difference?

kapo | kapu |

As nouns the difference between kapo and kapu

is that kapo is kapo while kapu is taboo, especially in hawaiian contexts.

kapo

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.
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    kapu

    English

    Noun

    (kapu)
  • Taboo, especially in Hawaiian contexts.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 43:
  • The operation of taboos – or kapu – kept society ordered, quite cruelly on occasion.
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