Aymara

American  

[ahy-mah-rah] / ˌaɪ mɑˈrɑ /

noun

• Aymaras,
  plural
• Aymara
  plural

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

Derived Forms

• Aymaran
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Aymara
  plural
• Aymaras
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of Aymara

First recorded in 1855–60

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Example Sentences

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Aymara Aymaras

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

Bolivia is a country of 12 million people, many of them members of the Aymara and Quechua indigenous groups living in the high mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

“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

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

They, however, retained certain privileges, such as the use of their own language; and their treatment by their conquerors generally suggested that the latter believed themselves of Aymara blood.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

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

In mixing among the Aymaras, one of the first 167 things he discovered was that, though himself an exceptionally good walker, he was a baby at such exercise when pitted against them.

From Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America by H. W. G. Hyrst

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