Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A supposed standard of linear measure of the Incas. The value of the tupu was and is very uncertain. At present the Indians apply the name to the league, the mile, and any other unit of length introduced and brought to their knowledge by whites.
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Examples
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Tupac Inca divided the estates throughout the whole empire, according to the measure which they call _tupu_.
History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
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"E tupu te fau, et toro te farero, e mou te taata!"
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900
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Maana yake, "Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu Hai, Mkarimu anaona haya ikiwa mtu atamnyooshea mikono yake airudishe tupu."
Muti 2010
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Maana yake, "Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu Hai, Mkarimu anaona haya ikiwa mtu atamnyooshea mikono yake airudishe tupu."
Muti 2010
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Maana yake, "Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu Hai, Mkarimu anaona haya ikiwa mtu atamnyooshea mikono yake airudishe tupu."
Muti 2010
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Kamletea jeuri Akamtupa lupango. kweli mapezi hayana mzamini. shombo tupu hata kusikia habari zenyewe.
BongoCelebrity 2009
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Xima auxilla faaberes? quas quidem cohor - tes fpero jam - tupu efie » quoniam latro Wm tam fuit demensk Tuumt/confilium vehemen -
M. Tvllii Ciceronis Opera qvae svpersvnt omnia secvndvm optimae novissimasqve editiones ... 1786
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_namun_ the pace, _the can_ the ell, and _tupu_ the league, which answers to the marine league or the pharasang of the Persians: But they estimate long distances by mornings, corresponding to our days journeys.
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