Oaxaca
Meanings
name
- A city in Mexico.
- A municipality whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
- A state of Mexico.
- A habitational surname from Spanish.
noun
- A semihard white cheese from the Oaxaca region of Mexico.
noun
- Alternative form of Oaxaca (the cheese)
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (huaje) (Leucaena leucocephala) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).
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