Etymology

Papago

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Today it means: A Uto-Aztecan people of southern Arizona and Sonora in northern Mexico. Today they are known as the Tohono O'odham ("the Desert People"). Full definition →

Spanish Pápago ← O'odham Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa
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  1. O'odham · derived fromBa꞉bawĭkoʼa“they eat tepary beans”
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromPápago
  3. English todayPapago

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

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