Quechua

See also: quechua and quéchua

English

Spanish, from Quechua qhichwa (literally “temperate valley”).

Quechua (plural Quechuas or Quechua)

A member of one of several South American ethnic groups that spans Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, northern Chile, and in Ecuador and southern Colombia.
- 1972, Lytle Robinson, chapter 5, in Edgar Cayceʼs Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man, USA: Berkley Publishing Corporation, page 105:
  The Quechuas, a tribe of the Inca people, were Indians of the red race and with an appearance and trait which is distinctly American. “They are”, says Victor W. Von Hagen in his book, Realm of the Incas, “of medium height, and inclined to be thickset, with large hands, small wrists, a disproportionately large chest (developed for breathing at high altitudes), well-developed legs, and wide-spreading feet. They are broad-headed, with high cheekbones, prominent aquiline noses, and small, almond-shaped eyes.” There are still five million of them in the Andes.
Synonym: Quechuan

member of the Quechua ethnic group

Quechua

language

Arabic: كِتْشْوَا‎ f (kitšwā), كيشوا‎ f (kitshwā)
Armenian: կեչուա (hy) (kečʿua)
Bulgarian: ке́чуа (kéčua)
Catalan: quítxua (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 克丘亞語／克丘亚语 (Kèqiūyàyǔ)
Chuvash: кечуа (keč̬ua)
Czech: kečuánština
Danish: quechua
Dutch: Quechua (nl) n
Esperanto: Keĉua lingvo
Faroese: kesjva n
Finnish: ketšua (fi)
French: quechua (fr) m
Galician: quechua (gl) m
German: Quechua (de) n
Interlingua: quechua
Irish: Ceatsuais f
Italian: quechua (it) m
Japanese: ケチュア語 (ja) (Kechua-go)
Korean: 케추아어 (Kechua'eo)
Limburgish: quechua
Lithuanian: kečujų kalba (lt)
Mapudungun: kechuadungun
Navajo: Kéchwa bizaad
Norwegian: quechua
Polish: keczua (pl) m or n, kiczua (pl) m or n
Portuguese: quíchua (pt)
Quechua: qhichwa
Ecuadorian Kichwa: runa shimi, kichwa shimi
Southern Quechua: runa simi (qu), qhichwa simi
Russian: ке́чуа (ru) m (kéčua) (indeclinable)
Slovene: kečuanščina
Spanish: quechua (es) m
Swedish: quechua (sv)
Welsh: Cetshwa

Quechua n