Meanings
- An indigenous group of inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina.
Then Millaray Jara Collio, or MC Millaray as the young rapper calls herself, spun away and exploded onto the stage with an animated rap about the presence of Chile’s military in the territory of the Mapuche, the country’s largest Indigenous group.
2023 January 27, John Bartlett, Tomás Munita, “Teenage Rapper, Rooted in Mapuche Identity, Roars for Indigenous Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN - The language of the Mapuche people.
Synonyms: Mapudungun
- A member of this people.
Synonyms: Araucanian
- not comparableOf, from, or pertaining to this people or their language.
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe language of the Mapuche people.
nounA member of this people.
Origin
- MapudungunMapuce
- EnglishMapuche
From Mapudungun Mapuce.
More words from Mapudungun
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مَابُوتْشِي
- مَابُوتْشِي (maputši)Mapuche tribe
Catalan maputxe
- maputxeMapuche tribe
Chinese Mandarin 馬普切人 /马普切人
- 馬普切人 /马普切人 (Mǎpǔqiè rén)Mapuche tribe
Czech mapučové
- mapučovéMapuche tribe
Esperanto mapuĉo
- mapuĉoMapuche tribe
Japanese マプチェ族
- マプチェ族 (Mapuche-zoku)Mapuche tribe
Korean 마푸체족
- 마푸체족 (Mapuche-jok)Mapuche tribe
Spanish mapuche, araucanes
- mapucheMapuche tribe
- araucanesMapuche tribe
Cite this entry
Mapuche. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mapuche
“Mapuche.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mapuche. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mapuche,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mapuche.
Source: Mapuche on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.