Aymara

American  

[ahy-mah-rah] / ˌaɪ mɑˈrɑ /

noun

plural

Aymaras,

plural

Aymara

1. a member of an Indian people living in the mountainous regions around Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru.

2. the language of the Aymara people.

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Aymara British  

/ ˌaɪməˈrɑː /

noun

1. a member of a South American Indian people of Bolivia and Peru

2. the language of this people, probably related to Quechua

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Other Word Forms

• Aymaran adjective

Etymology

Origin of Aymara

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

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

“Sometimes the jararanko is scary—it chases you and bites you,” says Flores, who is Aymara, and kills the animals legally for use in traditional medicine.

From National Geographic • Oct. 26, 2023

In northern Chile, Aymara Indigenous women weave textiles surrounded by the hills and sandy roads of the Atacama Desert where they raise llamas and alpacas.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2023

In Los Angeles, members of the Quechua and Aymara Indigenous peoples in the United States have held five protests since the crisis began.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2023

It refers us for its prototype to the Aymara allegory of the morning light flinging its beams like snow-white foam athwart the waves of Lake Titicaca.

From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison