Meanings
plural Arawaks
- A member of an Amerindian people who lived in the region of the Caribbean when the Spanish arrived in America.
Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.
2009 January 8, Thomas Streissguth, Suriname in Pictures, →ISBN, page 20 - A member of an Arawak indigenous group.
- A group of Amerindian languages spoken around the Caribbean.
- not comparablePertaining to the Arawak peoples
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America
nouna family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Kari'naAruwako
- EnglishArawak
From Kari'na Aruwako, from the name in Lokono.
More words from Kari'na
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French Arawak, Arawak
- Arawakpeople
- Arawakpertaining to the Arawak
German Arawak, Arawak
- Arawakpeople
- Arawakpertaining to the Arawak
Irish Aruacach, Aruaicis
- Aruacachpeople
- Aruaicisgroup of languages
- Aruaicisspecific language
- Aruacachpertaining to the Arawak
Portuguese aruaque, arawak
- aruaquepertaining to the Arawak
- arawakpertaining to the Arawak
- aruakpertaining to the Arawak
- arauacopertaining to the Arawak
- aruacopertaining to the Arawak
- arauaquepertaining to the Arawak
Spanish arahuaco, arahuaco
- arahuacopeople
- arahuacogroup of languages
- arahuacospecific language
- arahuacopertaining to the Arawak
Swedish arawak, arawakindian
- arawakpertaining to the Arawak
- arawakindianpertaining to the Arawak
Cite this entry
Arawak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arawak
“Arawak.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arawak. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Arawak,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arawak.
Source: Arawak on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.