meaning
Gruppe, Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft, Stamm
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
NOMEN Gemeinschaft, Firma, Gruppe, Nation, Gesellschaft, Stamm, Community
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Tongan · kulupu ‘group’
English · group
coined by jan Sonja
sitelen pona
kulupupictogram of a group consisting of three members represented by circles
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ucsur
U+F191F