Navajo

Meanings

Noun

• A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.

Proper Noun

• An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).
• An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language

Related

Similar words

• Dine
• Diné
• Navajo language
• en
• Navajo People

Origin

• From Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahu ("field adjoining an arroyo").