Papago

[ pap-uh-goh, pah-puh- ]

/ ˈpæp əˌgoʊ, ˈpɑ pə- /

noun, plural Pap·a·gos, (especially collectively) Pap·a·go for 1.

a member of a North American Indian people closely related to the Pima and now living mainly in southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico.

the Uto-Aztecan language of the Papago Indians, closely related to Pima.

Origin of Papago

< Spanish pápago, earlier papabo(s), shortening of papabi-ootam < Pima-Papago bá·bawĭ-ʔóʔodham Papago(s), equivalent to bá·bawĭ tepary beans + ʔóʔodham Piman

Example sentences from the Web for papago

The Doc did not drink water so long as his store of contraband liquor held out; but the Papago did.

Dust of the Desert |Robert Welles Ritchie
From what his daughter tells me theres not a Papago on the place here who wouldnt gladly have died in his place.

Dust of the Desert |Robert Welles Ritchie
Before twenty-four hours the gossip was being 170 whispered in the most distant caons of Papago County.

Crooked Trails and Straight |William MacLeod Raine
Stooder pushed the Papago to his haunches and threw his own body full length into the hole dug.

Dust of the Desert |Robert Welles Ritchie

What motive for anybody here in the house or in the Papago village outside for that matter?

Dust of the Desert |Robert Welles Ritchie

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Papago

noun, plural Pap·a·gos, (especially collectively) Pap·a·go for 1.

Origin of Papago

Example sentences from the Web for papago