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Quichua

American  
[keech-wah, -wuh] / ˈkitʃ wɑ, -wə /

noun

  • Quichuas,
    plural
  • Quichua
    plural
  1. Quechua.


Quichua British  
/ ˈkɪtʃwə /

noun

  1. a variant of Quechua

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Blanca Ashanga harvests corn in a field in the Quichua community of San Pedro Sumino in the province of Napo in the Ecuadorean jungle.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2013

The claimants called themselves Los Afectados, or the affected ones, and among their ranks were members of the Cofan and Quichua tribes.

From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 10, 2011

I try to ignore her, try to find some Quichua words to use as shields or weapons.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Then I take a deep breath and force my mouth to make the sounds of Quichua.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

They ask how to say things in Quichua, and are disappointed when I explain I know only a few words.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

An elevated region called by the Quichuas the Puna, or “the uninhabited,” must be described.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

As might have been foreseen, he chafed under restraint, escaped as soon as possible from his attentive guardians, and raised an army of faithful Quichuas.

From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

It is, however, more reasonable to suppose that the Quichuas and Aimaras were a race of emigrants from Plato's island than to think that Atlantis was populated from South America.

From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly

"You mean that you would choose to be King over the Chancas rather than stand next to the throne among the Quichuas?" he said, scanning me sharply.

From The Virgin of the Sun by Henry Rider Haggard

So far as we could learn by questions and observation, about one quarter of the Quichuas are childless.

From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

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