lupˈlup|ENmale, man, marked form as the default gender for ‘lipu’ is male|TPmanLup tela mati.A man died.GENERIClipupersonCOMPOUNDhaingluppeople, men and womenPHRASEluprangginaritual sound instrument, bullroarer made from black palm and elliptical-shaped, it was tied to a rope and swung around in circles which created a sound like ‘buxubuxu’. It meant that it was time to kill the pigs (‘buxu’) as the boys would now enter the initiation house for their initiation rites
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