Arawak

See also: arawak

English

Etymology

From Kari'na Aruwako, from the name in Lokono.

Noun

Arawak (plural Arawaks or Arawak)

1. 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.

2. A member of an Arawak indigenous group.

Translations

• Note: These may be translations for the plural.

people

• French: Arawak (fr) m or f
• German: Arawak (de) m or f
• Irish: Aruacach m
• Marathi: आरावाक (ārāvāk)
• Spanish: arahuaco m

Proper noun

Arawak

1. A group of Amerindian languages spoken around the Caribbean.
2. A Caribbean language belonging to this group.

Translations

group of languages

• Irish: Aruaicis f
• Marathi: आरावाक (ārāvāk)
• Spanish: arahuaco m

specific language

• Irish: Aruaicis f
• Marathi: आरावाक f (ārāvāk)
• Spanish: arahuaco m
• Sranan Tongo: Arwakatongo

Adjective

Arawak (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the Arawak peoples

Translations

pertaining to the Arawak

• French: Arawak (fr) m or f
• German: Arawak (de) m
• Irish: Aruacach
• Marathi: आरावाक (ārāvāk)
• Portuguese: aruaque (pt), arawak, aruak, arauaco, aruaco, arauaque
• Spanish: arahuaco
• Sranan Tongo: arwaka
• Swedish: arawak, arawakindian

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lokono terms
• Arawak language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ethnologue entry for Arawak, arw ⁠

References

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Arawak”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Karawa