Hopi

See also: hopi, hópi, and Ho-pi

English

Etymology 1

From Hopi hopi (“Hopi, good in every respect, be wise/knowing”) (as in Hopituu sinom "Hopi people"). Popularized by J. Walter Fewkes as a replacement for the previously used and offensive name Moqui which sounds like Hopi mooki "dies, be dead".

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊ.pi/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊ.pi/
• Rhymes: -əʊpi
• Hyphenation: ho‧pi

Noun

Hopi (plural Hopis or Hopi)

1. A member of a particular tribe of North American natives.

Derived terms

• Hopi Reservation

 

Translations

• Note: These are translations for the plural.

tribe

• Cahuilla: hoopi
• French: Hopis (fr) m pl
• Galician: hopi (gl)
• Hopi: Hopi'sinom, Hopi
• Irish: Hóipeach m
• Navajo: Oozéí, Ayahkinii, Kiisʼáanii
• Polish: Hopi (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: hopi (pt) m pl
• Russian: хо́пи (ru) m (xópi)

Proper noun

Hopi

1. The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by this North American tribe.

Translations

Hopi language

• Dutch: Hopi (nl)
• French: hopi (fr) m
• Galician: hopi (gl)
• Hopi: Hopiikwa
• Irish: Hóipis f
• Navajo: Oozéí bizaad
• Polish: hopi (pl) m
• Portuguese: hopi (pt) m
• Russian: хо́пи (ru) m (xópi)
• Spanish: hopi m

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Hopi, hop ⁠

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Hopi

1. Alternative form of Hebi
   • 1960 September, “1957 April-December”, in E. Stuart Kirby, editor, Contemporary China‎^[1], volume III, →OCLC, page 278:

     A Coal Mine capable of producing 450,000 tons of coal annually started operation in Hopi, Honan.

   • 1972, Theodore Shabad, “The North China Plain”, in China's Changing Map‎^[2], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:

     Two other major coal-mining centers, each producing coking-grade bituminous coal, have been developed in Honan since the late 1950's. Hopi, in northernmost Honan, arose in 1957 on the site of a small, primitive operation in a deposit of lean coal, low in volatile content. A city was established in that year, and the mining complex was linked by a 12-mile rail spur with Tangyin, on the main Peking-Hankow line.

   • 1975 June 17, Walter Sullivan, “CHINA STUDY LINKS CANCER TO REGION”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 October 2023, page 66‎^[4]:

     Death certificates were tabulated to map morality from esophageal cancer in the 181 counties and cities of the survey. The counties with the highest incidences were Yangcheng and Hopi with rates, respectively, of 135 and 140 per 100,000. By contrast, in Hunyuan County the rate was under 2 per 100,000.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hopi.

Anagrams

• IHOP, Ipoh, OHIP

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English Hopi.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)}IPA^(key): /ɔ.pi/

Noun

Hopi m or f by sense (plural Hopis)

1. Hopi person

Related terms

• hopi

See also

• Anasazi
• Hopis on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr