Aymara

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a member of an Indigenous people of the central Andes, especially in Bolivia, Peru, and northern Chile

   An Aymara farmer described how the high-altitude climate shapes the harvest.

2. 2
   noun

   the Aymara language, a major Indigenous language of the central Andes

   The radio station broadcasts news in Aymara every morning.

3. 3
   adj

   relating to the Aymara people, their language, or their culture

   The archive preserves Aymara oral histories recorded near Lake Titicaca.

Borrowed through Spanish aimara or aymara, the established name of the people and language; its deeper origin is uncertain. Aymara is commonly unchanged as a collective or plural, though Aymaras occurs in historical and Spanish-influenced English.

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