English Explanatory Dictionary

Zinacantán

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A municipality (municipio) in Chiapas, Mexico, more fully San Lorenzo Zinacantán.

Word forms

Zinacantán Zinacantan

Etymology

From Spanish Zinacantán, from Nahuatl Tzinacantlan "place of bats", from tzinacan "bat" + -tlan. Compare Tzotzil (the local language of Zinacantán) sots'leb with the same meaning.

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