Navajo

See also: navajo

Contents

English

Alternative forms

• Navaho

Etymology

From Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnæv.ə.həʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnæv.ə.hoʊ/, /ˈnɑ.və.hoʊ/

Noun

Navajo (plural Navajo or Navajos or Navajoes)

1. A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.

Derived terms

• Navajo County
• Navajo neuropathy
• Navajo white

Translations

person

• Catalan: navaho m or f
• Cherokee: ᎠᏂᎾᏩᎰ (aninawaho)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 納瓦霍族, 纳瓦霍族 (Nàwǎhuò-zú), 納瓦霍, 纳瓦霍 (Nàwǎhuò)

• Finnish: navajo (fi)
• French: Navajo (fr)
• German: Navajo (de) m, Navaho (de) m
• Greek: Ναβάχο m pl (Navácho)
• Irish: Navachóch m
• Japanese: ナバホ族 (Nabaho-zoku)

• Navajo: Diné, Naabeehó
• Persian: ناواهو‎ (navaho)
• Polish: Nawaho
• Portuguese: navajo (pt) m
• Russian: нава́хо (ru) m (naváxo) (indeclinable)
• Spanish: navajo (es) m
• Swahili: Mnavaho sg, Wanavaho pl
• Taos: nábahuna
• Western Apache: Yúdahą́
• Zuni: A:bachu

Proper noun

Navajo

1. An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).

Translations

language

• Arabic: اَلنَّافَاجُو‎ m (an-nafajū)
• Armenian: նավահո (hy) (navaho)
• Breton: navac'hoeg
• Cherokee: ᎾᏩᎰ (nawaho)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 納瓦霍語, 纳瓦霍语 (Nàwǎhuò-yǔ)

• Dutch: Navajo (nl)
• Esperanto: Navaha lingvo
• Finnish: navajo (fi)
• French: navajo (fr)
• Galician: navajo (gl)
• German: Navajo (de) n, Navaho (de) n
• Greek: ναβάχο (el) f (navácho)
• Guaraní: navaxu aru
• Hebrew: נאוואחו‎
• Icelandic: navajóíska
• Indonesian: bahasa Navajo (id)
• Inuktitut: ᓈᕙᐦᐅᑐᑦ (naavahutut)
• Irish: Navachóis
• Italian: lingua navajo

• Japanese: ナバホ語 (Nabaho-go)
• Javanese: basa Navajo
• Korean: 나바호어 (Nabaho-eo)
• Limburgish: Navajo
• Lithuanian: navahų kalba
• Macedonian: навахо (navaho)
• Manx: Navajo
• Mapudungun: navaku dungun
• Navajo: Diné bizaad, Naabeehó bizaad
• Polish: Nawaho
• Portuguese: navajo (pt) m
• Quechua: diné simi
• Russian: нава́хо (ru) m (naváxo) (indeclinable)
• Scottish Gaelic: Navajo
• Spanish: navajo (es) m
• Swahili: Kinavaho
• Swedish: navajo (sv)
• Tamil: நாவஹோ மொழி (nāvahō moḻi)
• Turkish: Navahoca (tr)

See also

• Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Southern Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Na-Dené languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wiktionary's coverage of Navajo terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code nv, ISO 639-3 code nav
• Ethnologue entry for Navajo, nv