mapo

mapo (uncountable)

1. Ellipsis of mapo doufu.
   • 2022, Ling Ma, “Peking Duck”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     I look down at my plate, a mound of rice covered with gushy mapo.

• Poma

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mapo

1. (Chungli) some kind of squash

• Bruhn, Daniel (2010), “Unearthing the Roots: Ao and Proto-Tibeto-Burman — The Rimes”, in UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report‎^[1], volume 6, number 6, University of California, Berkeley, →DOI, page 230
• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 164
• Clark, E. W. (1911), “MAPO, mapu”, in Ao-Naga dictionary, Dimapur

From Medieval Latin mappa mundi (literally “sheet of the world”), from Latin Latin mappa (“sheet, napkin”) + mundi (“of the world”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmapo/

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• Rhymes: -apo
• Syllabification: ma‧po

mapo (accusative singular mapon, plural mapoj, accusative plural mapojn)

1. map, chart (visual representation of an area)

   geografia, geologia, astronomia mapo ― geographic, geological, astronomical map

2. (mathematics) mapping, function

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.po/
• Rhymes: -apo
• Hyphenation: mà‧po

mapo m (invariable)

1. cross between clementine and grapefruit (Citrus paradisi x Citrus reticulata); a kind of tangelo or ugli

• Poma

Borrowed from English mop.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmapo/ [ˈma.po]
• Rhymes: -apo
• Syllabification: ma‧po

mapo m (plural mapos)

1. (Puerto Rico) mop

   Synonyms: mopa, trapeador

• “mapo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “mapo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010