Papago
Americannoun
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Papagos,
plural
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Papago
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Papago
First recorded in 1810–20; from Spanish pápago, earlier papabo(s), shortening of papabi-ootam from Oʼodham bá·bawĭ-ʔóʔodham “Papago(s)” (former self-designation), equivalent to bá·bawĭ “tepary beans” + ʔóʔodham “Piman, fellow tribesman, human being”
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The Huskies completed the first of three rounds Monday at Papago Golf Club in Phoenix with a total of 6-over 294, placing them eighth.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
The land was set aside as the Papago Saguaro National Monument in 1914 and in 1930, became Papago Park.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
OK, this video about the new plans for Papago Golf Course, which will be Arizona State’s new home course, isn’t the most exciting clip you’ll see.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 21, 2017
A runner makes his way along a trail on a butte in front of a supermoon at Papago Park in Phoenix, Arizona.
From BBC ● May 11, 2012
Gale had heard this once before, and now he remembered it was at the Papago Well.
From Desert Gold by Zane Grey
After barely three months in office, Greece's bald, immaculate and dour new Premier, Marshal Alexander Papagos, had reason to be optimistic last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Papagos and the Greeks had not yet won a war, but they had put Mussolini in a difficult spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
King George II, after his restoration in 1935 by a military junta of which Papagos was a member, made the Army popular by insisting on clean barracks.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it was the combined, concentrated brains of Metaxas and Papagos which evolved the mountain strategy and tactics now bearing such startling fruit.
From Time Magazine Archive
As nails were scarce, Buckskin Alick had constructed a mill held together by rawhides, and was grinding wheat for the Papagos.
From Building a State in Apache Land by Charles D. (Charles Debrille) Poston
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