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Napu vs Kapu - What's the difference?

napu | kapu |

As nouns the difference between napu and kapu

is that napu is the greater mouse-deer, tragulus napu while kapu is taboo, especially in hawaiian contexts.

napu

English

Noun

(Greater Mouse-deer) (en noun)
  • The greater mouse-deer, Tragulus napu

    • 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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