Navajo

Navajo

See also: navajo

English

Alternative forms

• Navaho

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnæv.ə.həʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnæv.ə.hoʊ/, /ˈnɑ.və.hoʊ/, (contracted) /ˈnæv.oʊ/

Noun

Navajo (plural Navajo or Navajos or Navajoes)

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

Derived terms

• Navajo County
• Navajo flu
• Navajoness
• Navajo neuropathy
• Navajo white

Translations

person

Catalan: navaho m or f Cherokee: ᎠᏂᎾᏩᎰ (aninawaho) Chinese: Cantonese: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: 納瓦霍族／纳瓦霍族 (Nàwǎhuò-zú), 納瓦霍／纳瓦霍 (Nàwǎhuò) Esperanto: navaho Finnish: navajo (fi) French: Navajo (fr) German: Navajo (de) m, Navaho (de) m Greek: Ναβάχο m pl (Navácho) Irish: Navachóch m Japanese: ナバホ族 (Nabaho-zoku) Khmer: ឌិណិស (dinəh), ណាវ៉ាហូ (naavaahou) Navajo: Diné, Naabeehó Persian: ناواهو‎ (nâvâho) Polish: Nawaho Portuguese: navajo (pt) m Russian: нава́хо (ru) m (naváxo) (indeclinable) Spanish: navajo (es) m Swahili: Mnavaho sg, Wanavaho pl Taos: nábahuna Western Apache: Yúdahą́ Zuni: A:bachu

Proper noun

Navajo

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

Synonyms

language

• Dine
• Diné
• Navajo language

 

people

• Dine
• Diné
• Navajo People

 

Derived terms

• Navajo Indian Reservation
• Navajo Nation
• Navajo People
• Navajo Reservation
• Navajo Tribal Nation
• Navajo Tribe

 

Translations

language

Arabic: اَلنَّافَاجُو‎ m (an-nafajū) Armenian: նավահո (hy) (navaho) Breton: navac'hoeg Cherokee: ᎾᏩᎰ (nawaho) Chinese: Mandarin: 納瓦霍語／纳瓦霍语 (Nàwǎhuò-yǔ) Dutch: Navajo (nl) Esperanto: la navaha lingvo Finnish: navajo (fi) French: navajo (fr) Galician: navajo (gl) German: Navajo (de) n, Navaho (de) n Greek: ναβάχο (el) f (navácho) Guaraní: navaxu aru Hebrew: נאוואחו‎ Icelandic: navajóíska Indonesian: bahasa Navajo Inuktitut: ᓈᕙᐦᐅᑐᑦ (naafahotot) Irish: Navachóis Italian: navajo (it) m Japanese: ナバホ語 (Nabaho-go) Javanese: basa Navajo Khmer: ភាសាណាវ៉ាហូ (phiəsaanaavaahou) Korean: 나바호어 (Nabaho'eo) Limburgish: Navajo Lithuanian: navahų kalba Macedonian: навахо (navaho) Manx: Navajo Mapudungun: navaku dungun Navajo: Diné bizaad, Naabeehó bizaad Polish: Nawaho Portuguese: navajo (pt) m Quechua: diné simi Russian: нава́хо (ru) m (naváxo) (indeclinable) Scottish Gaelic: Navajo Spanish: navajo (es) m Swahili: Kinavaho Swedish: navajo (sv) Tamil: நாவஹோ மொழி (nāvahō moḻi) Turkish: Navahoca (tr)

See also

• Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Southern Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Na-Dené languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Navajo terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code nv, ISO 639-3 code nav (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Navajo, nav ⁠