Aymara

See also: aymara

English

Alternative forms

• Aimara

Etymology

From Spanish aymará, possibly from Aymara or a Quechuan language. Attested in English since the mid 18th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌaɪməˈɹɑː/
• Hyphenation: Ay‧ma‧ra

Noun

Aymara pl (plural only)

1. An indigenous people of South America.
   • 1991, Franz Josef Hausmann, “Aymara Lexicography”, in Wörterbücher / Dictionaries / Dictionnaires‎^[1], page 2687:

     Because the Aymara are hungry for a good contemporary dictionary, and because there are so many non-Aymara needing a good dictionary (as shown by the active international participation), this dictionary attracted a lot of attention.

Translations

indigenous people of South America

• Bulgarian: аймара f (ajmara)
• Catalan: aimara (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 艾马拉人 (Àimǎlā rén)

• Dutch: Aymara (nl) pl
• Faroese: aimara n
• French: Aymara (fr) m
• German: Aymara (de)
• Greek: Αϊμαρά f (Aïmará)
• Gujarati: આયમારા (āyamārā)
• Hindi: आयमारा (hi) (āymārā)
• Irish: Aidhmearach m
• Japanese: アイマラ (aimara)
• Portuguese: aimará (pt) m pl, aimara m pl
• Russian: аймара́ (ru) m (ajmará)
• Spanish: aimara (es), aymara (es), aimará (es)

Proper noun

Aymara

1. A language spoken in South America.
   • 1988, Xavier Albó, “Bilingualism in Bolivia”, in Christina Bratt Paulston, editor, International Handbook of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education‎^[2], page 97:

     In Potosi, Aymara is spoken in the Llica region, located north of the saltpan, and in the provinces comprising the region known as Norte de Potosi

Translations

language of South America

• Albanian: gjuha aymara
• Arabic: لغَة أيمارا‎
• Aragonese: aimara m
• Armenian: այմարա (hy) (aymara)
• Asturian: aymara (ast) m
• Aymara: aymar aru
• Basque: aimara
• Bengali: আইমারা ভাষা (aimara bhaṣa)
• Breton: aymareg
• Bulgarian: аймара (ajmara)
• Catalan: aimara (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 艾馬拉語

• Czech: ajmarština (cs)
• Danish: aymara
• Dutch: Aymara (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ajmara lingvo
• Faroese: aimara n
• Finnish: aimara (fi), aimaran kieli
• French: aimara (fr) m, aymara (fr) m
• Galician: aimara m
• German: Aymara (de) n
• Guaraní: aimarañe'ẽ
• Hindi: आयमारा (hi) (āymārā)
• Icelandic: aímaríska (is)
• Ido: aymarana linguo
• Indonesian: bahasa Aymara
• Irish: Aidhmiris f
• Italian: aymara (it) m
• Japanese: アイマラ語 (ja) (aimara-go)
• Korean: 아이마라어 (aimara'eo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: aymara (ku)

• Latvian: aimaru valoda
• Ligurian: aymara
• Lithuanian: aimarų (lt), aimarų kalba
• Low German: Aymara
• Malay: bahasa Aymara
• Mapudungun: aymaradungun
• Marathi: आयमारा भाषा (āymārā bhāṣā)
• Nahuatl: aimaratlahtōlli
• Navajo: Aymara bizaad
• Norwegian: aymara

  Norwegian Nynorsk: aymara

• Ossetian: аймараг ӕвзаг (ajmarag ævzag)
• Portuguese: aimará (pt) m, aimara m
• Quechua: aymara simi
• Russian: аймара́ (ru) m (ajmará)
• Samogitian: aimaru kalba
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ајмара, ајмарски језик

  Roman: ajmara, ajmarski jezik

• Slovak: aymarčina f
• Slovene: ajmarščina f
• Spanish: idioma aimara m, aimara (es) m, aymara (es) m
• Swedish: aymara (sv)
• Turkish: Aymaraca (tr)
• Ukrainian: аймара (ajmara)
• Walloon: aymara

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} Aymara

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Aymara terms

References

• “Aymara”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Further reading

• Aymara–English Dictionary: from Webster’s Online Dictionary — the Rosetta Edition.
• Aymara language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ISO 639-1 code ay, ISO 639-3 code aym (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Aymara, aym (behind paywall), a macrolanguage including:

• Ethnologue entry for Aymara, ayr (behind paywall)
• Ethnologue entry for Aymara, ayc (behind paywall)

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French

Noun

Aymara m or f by sense (plural Aymaras)

1. member of the Aymara people

Further reading

• “Aymara”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.