Oaxaca

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English

Map of Mexico highlighting Oaxaca

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (“a type of tree”) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Oaxaca

  1. A city in Mexico.
  2. A municipality whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
  3. One of the 31 states of Mexico, formally the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, located in the southern part of the country, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

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Noun

Oaxaca (countable and uncountable, plural Oaxacas)

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  1. A semihard white cheese from the Oaxaca region of Mexico.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Huāxacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (“a type of tree”) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /w̝aˈxaka/ [w̝aˈxa.ka]

Proper noun

Oaxaca f

  1. Oaxaca (city)
  2. Oaxaca (municipality)
  3. Oaxaca (state)

Synonyms

  • OA (abbreviation)

See also

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