Yaqui

[ yah-kee ]

noun,plural Ya·quis, (especially collectively) Ya·qui for 1.
  1. Also called Yo·em·e [yoh-em-ey] /yoʊˈɛm eɪ/ . a member of an Indigenous people of Sonora, Mexico, now living also in other parts of northwestern Mexico and in Arizona and Texas.

  2. Also called Yo·em No·ki [yoh-em noh-kee] /ˈyoʊ ɛm ˈnoʊ ki/ . the Uto-Aztecan language of the Yaqui.

  1. a river in northwestern Mexico, flowing into the Gulf of California. 420 miles (676 kilometers) long.

adjective
  1. of or relating to the Yaqui or their language.

Origin of Yaqui

1
First recorded in 1860–65; from Mexican Spanish, from earlier Hiaquis (plural), from Yaqui hiaki, hiyaki “the Yaqui River”

Words Nearby Yaqui

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How to use Yaqui in a sentence

  • The tribes were already very numerous, including that of the Yaqui (Nahuas).

  • The Mayo and Yaqui valleys were now made a separate rectorate.

    The Colonization of North America | Herbert Eugene Bolton
  • He was down in the Yaqui River country in Mexico, where heavy construction work was under way.

    The Modern Railroad | Edward Hungerford
  • At last we entered hilly country and the streams pushed with rapidity, flowing to the Yaqui, flowing to the sea.

    1492 | Mary Johnston
  • Turning back along the eastern slope of the Sierras, he recrossed them, with terrible hardship, into the lower Yaqui valley.

    The Colonization of North America | Herbert Eugene Bolton

British Dictionary definitions for Yaqui

Yaqui

/ (Spanish ˈjaki) /


noun
  1. a river in NW Mexico, rising near the border with the US and flowing south to the Gulf of California. Length: about 676 km (420 miles)

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