Arawak
Appearance
See also: arawak
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Kari'na Aruwako, from the name in Lokono.
Noun
[edit]Arawak (plural Arawaks or Arawak)
- A member of an Amerindian people who lived in the region of the Caribbean when the Spanish arrived in America.
- 2009 January 8, Thomas Streissguth, Suriname in Pictures, →ISBN, page 20:
- Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.
- A member of an Arawak indigenous group.
Translations
[edit]- Note: These may be translations for the plural.
people
Proper noun
[edit]Arawak
- A group of Amerindian languages spoken around the Caribbean.
- A Caribbean language belonging to this group.
Translations
[edit]specific language
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Adjective
[edit]Arawak (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the Arawak peoples
Translations
[edit]pertaining to the Arawak
See also
[edit]- Wiktionary's coverage of Lokono terms
- Arawak language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ethnologue entry for Arawak, arw
References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Anagrams
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