Lâpa

Lâpa is a word that comes from a language called Hawaiian, and it means cut or sliced. Imagine you have a big fruit, like a pineapple or watermelon. You want to eat it, but it's too big to take a bite out of. So, you take a knife and lâpa it! That means you cut it into smaller pieces that you can eat easily. Lâpa can also be used for things other than food, like lâpaing a piece of paper to make it smaller. So basically, lâpa means cutting something up into smaller parts so that you can use it or eat it.