meaning
group, community, society, company, nation, collection, team, crowd
semantic space · lipamanka
Any group of other things can be a kulupu. It's commonly used to describe groups of people: communities, clubs, cultures, cliques, charters, committees, collectives, coorperations, and perhaps other words that don't start with the letter "c" like a baseball team or a pride of lions. kulupu can also be groups of objects or animals, like a bunch of bananas, a basket filled with small clay pots, or a murder of crows. kulupu is often used to describe a plural system/collective (i.e. multiple people in one body). Usually a kulupu will be a group of items that have some sort of shared attribute, and using kulupu to describe a group of anything is emphasizing that they have something in common. These shared qualities can be anything from location to color to desire.
ku translations
group100 organization100 community95 collective91 tribe83 squad80 bunch75 tribal75 cluster71 league70 collection67 society67 association65 crew64 team60 club57 coalition54 set54 gathering53 socially53 category50 institution50 gang46 assembly45 meeting45 network44 pile44 crowd41 ethnic40 bureau38 class38 partnership38 social38 array36 stack35 affiliation33 committee33 public33 combination31 sequence29 establishment27 pack27 company25 conference25 demographic25 franchise25 rally25
pu verbatim
- NOUN community, company, group, nation, society, tribe
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Tongan · kulupu ‘group’
English · group
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
sitelen pona
kulupupictogram of a group consisting of three members represented by circles
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ucsur
U+F191F