kulupu

meaning

community, company, group, nation, society, tribe

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