Proto-Inupik: *qapi-ʁ-, *qapraɣ-
Meaning: to flesh a skin 1, to flense, to remove blubber from skin 2
Russian meaning: снимать мездру со шкуры 1, снимать жир со шкуры 2
Seward Peninsula Inupik: qapšak- 1
SPI Dialects: [Imaq qapátaq 'fleshed skin', qāpiq 'upper layer of stomach covering' < Nauk]
North Alaskan Inupik: qarvak-, qavrak- 2
NAI Dialects: Nu qaprak- 2, qapiq- 'to scoop fat from boiling meat'
Western Canadian Inupik: qavjak- 'to remove skin from seal', 2
Eastern Canadian Inupik: qajjā(C)- 2
ECI Dialects: Lab qabsaq- [Peck], qabjaq- [Bourquin]
Greenlandic Inupik: qaššaɣ- (qavssag-*) 2 (not scraping), qapiʁ-, qapiaʁ- 1, 'to scrape, to plane'
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 285, 286
