Navajo

Noun

A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.

Name

1. An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).
2. An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnæ.və.həʊ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).

Synonyms

Navaho

Diné

𐐤𐐪𐑂𐐲𐐸𐐬

Navajo man

Translations

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Navajo

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النافاجو

navaho

Navajo

Diné

nawaho

Pouilly-fuissé

Nawaho

Navaho