Papago

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noun

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

OriginSpanish Pápago ← O'odham Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa →
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Meanings

nounPapago (plural Papagos or Papago)

plural Papagos

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

    In the valley of the Gila and on its tributaries from the northeast are the Pimas, Maricopas, and Papagos.

    1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
tohono o'odham

Origin

  1. O'odhamBa꞉bawĭkoʼa“they eat tepary beans”
  2. SpanishPápago
  3. EnglishPapago

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

More words from Spanish, O'odham

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APA

Papago. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Papago

MLA

“Papago.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Papago. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Papago,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Papago.

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