Papago

Meaning

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").

Origin

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

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