Papago

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Uto-Aztecan people of southern Arizona and Sonora in northern Mexico. Today they are known as the Tohono O'odham ("the Desert People").

Word forms

Papago Papagos

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Pápago, itself from O'odham Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa (“they eat tepary beans”).

Related words

Pima Wiktionary’s coverage of O'odham terms
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