"kapu" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Hawaiian kapu",
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  "etymology_text": "From Hawaiian kapu, from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of taboo.",
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          "text": "The operation of taboos – or kapu – kept society ordered, quite cruelly on occasion.",
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          "Taboo",
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  "etymology_text": "From Hawaiian kapu, from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of taboo.",
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