Kapo vs Kapu - What's the difference?
kapo | kapu |
(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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Taboo, especially in Hawaiian contexts.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 43:
As nouns the difference between kapo and kapu
is that kapo is kapo while kapu is taboo, especially in hawaiian contexts.kapo
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(en noun)kapu
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(kapu)- The operation of taboos – or kapu – kept society ordered, quite cruelly on occasion.