English
mapou
Mapou comes from Haitian Creole mapou ‘mapou, Ceiba pentandra’.
- Haitian Creolemodernmapou‘mapou, Ceiba pentandra’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Haitian Creolemodernmapou‘mapou, Ceiba pentandra’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985same form
Earliest quotation: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow: “They found him beneath a great mapou tree, and…”
Every English word from Haitian Creole mapou
Today it means
noun On Haiti, the kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Haitian Creole mapou / mapou