Aymara
Americannoun
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Aymaras,
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Aymara
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a member of an Indian people living in the mountainous regions around Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru.
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the language of the Aymara people.
noun
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a member of a South American Indian people of Bolivia and Peru
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the language of this people, probably related to Quechua
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Origin of Aymara
First recorded in 1855–60
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Aymara Lamche-Brennan, who has a 22-year-old daughter, four-year-old son and six-month-old daughter, signed up for a course during the summer when another mother at the school gate mentioned she was attending.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Under former President Evo Morales, an Aymara indigenous leader who ruled from 2006 to 2019, Bolivia expelled the American ambassador and U.S. counterdrug officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
The six-inch-long reptile, called a jararanko—which translates to “lizard” in the Indigenous Aymara language—climbs onto a rock, basking in the sunlight.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 26, 2023
Once there, they knelt, praying in Aymara, Quechua as well as Spanish, their eyes tightly closed with hands extended to the heavens.
From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2023
The legs are likewise shorter, and they present this remarkable peculiarity, that in every Aymara measured the femur is actually shorter than the tibia.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
Historians say the missionaries wanted to teach the Aymaras about the passion of Christ and heaven and hell.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2019
Millions of dollars have been spent by the Aymaras on costumes and other preparations for the procession and the days of festivities surrounding it, in this, the poorest country in South America.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2010
The shape was probably produced by bandaging the infant head, which was a common practice among the Aymaras and other South American Indian tribes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Paka-Jakes settled on the land around holy Lake Titicaca, recreated the Aymaras, and named the province Pacajes after themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Aymaras, the ancient inhabitants of the mountains of Peru and Bolivia, are described as having an olive-brown complexion, with regular features, large heads, and a thoughtful and melancholy cast of countenance.
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
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