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Definition of papago - 2 dictionary results

Pap⋅a⋅go

  [pap-uh-goh, pah-puh-]
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–noun, plural -gos, (especially collectively) -go for 1.
1. a member of a North American Indian people closely related to the Pima and now living mainly in southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico.
2. the Uto-Aztecan language of the Papago Indians, closely related to Pima.
Origin:
< Sp pápago, earlier papabo(s), shortening of papabi-ootam < Pima-Papago bá⋅bawĭ-ʔóʔodham Papago(s), equiv. to bá⋅bawĭ tepary beans + ʔóʔodham Piman
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Pa·pa·go   (pāp'ə-gō', pä'pə-)   
n.   pl. Papago or Pa·pa·gos In both senses also called O'odham, Tohono O'odham.

    1. A Native American people inhabiting desert regions of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, a state of northwest Mexico.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Uto-Aztecan language of this people, dialectally related to Pima.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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