Yaqui

American  

[yah-kee] / ˈjɑ ki /

noun

Yaquis, plural Yaqui plural

1. Also called Yoeme.  a member of an Indigenous people of Sonora, Mexico, now living also in other parts of northwestern Mexico and in Arizona and Texas.

2. Also called Yoem Noki.  the Uto-Aztecan language of the Yaqui.

3. a river in northwestern Mexico, flowing into the Gulf of California. 420 miles (676 kilometers) long.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Yaqui or their language.

Yaqui British  

/ ˈjaki /

noun

1. a river in NW Mexico, rising near the border with the US and flowing south to the Gulf of California. Length: about 676 km (420 miles)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Yaqui
  plural
• Yaquis
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Yaqui

First recorded in 1860–65; from Mexican Spanish, from earlier Hiaquis (plural), from Yaqui hiaki, hiyaki “the Yaqui River”

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Yaqui Yaquis

That invitation begins at mile 18, where the Yaqui Pass Road turnoff leads northeast toward the desert basin and the gateway community of Borrego Springs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

The policy will force the Pascua Yaqui "to choose between houses for our families and water certainty for our Tribe and our neighbors," then-Chairman Robert Valencia wrote to the Department of Water Resources in 2020.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2023

“This is just something that will help everybody,” said Fred Urbina, attorney general for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2023

Now, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe is trying to change this - for themselves and potentially dozens of other tribes in the U.S.

From Washington Times ● May 13, 2023

But Yaqui Juan strode to the little table where the empty decanter stood, stooped, picked up a rough jug of decorative Mexican pottery from an under shelf.

From Play the Game! by Mitchell, Ruth Comfort

Their work could provide a template for dozens of Native American nations whose homelands, like the Pascua Yaquis, were sliced in two by modern-day U.S. borders.

From Washington Times ● May 13, 2023

And lithium deposits lie to the north of the Yaquis, and reportedly into their territory, as well.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

They said that General Amarilla was actually fighting for the Mexican army and helped oversee Yaquis in Tlaxcala who had been taken as war prisoners and sent to work in mines.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2022

The Yaquis wouldn’t have been given the green light from the Justice Department to launch the pilot project without Acosta, a longtime public defender — and she knows it.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2014

I myself know the fearsomeness of the raids of our equally ferocious Apaches and Yaquis.

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames