C / CH | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter C/CH: Displaying 3361 - 3380 of 5778

cofradía.

Orthographic Variants:

cobratia, cofrandi, confraria, confradia

lay brotherhood, confraternity (see attestations)

cohcochtiā.

to take many swallows of a liquid at one time.

# mo. Una persona toma una cosa muchas veces. “Jaime toma rápidamente el atole que prepara su mamá porque le gusta mucho”.

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cohcōcihui.

for many fruits to become yellow as they ripen.

# La fruta se madura se parece como una naranja. “ Mi ciruela se madura bien bonito cuando no lo tocan”.

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cohcōhua.

to buy many things.

A. nitla. una persona compra muchas cosas. “Todas las personas cuando empieza la fiesta de día de muertos empiezan a comprar porque los que van a dejar salido quieren todo nuevo”.

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cohcomīchoā.

to stick s.o. or an animal many times or in many places with a sharp, pointed object.

# nic. Una persona lo chanza a alguien, un animal domestico o un animal silvestre con un fiero o con un palo picudo o ancho. “Cuando un puerco no lo quiere mover una persona empieza a chonzarlo para que se valla otro lado”.

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cohconānāltiā.

to provoke a persona or an animal repeatedly or with many things.

#provocar. nic. Persona provoca a otro, animal domestico o animal salvaje muchas veces y con una cosa. “esas abejas picaron los niños porque ellos los provocaron.”

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cohcotoctic.

necklace, lazo, rope or string that has broken in many places.

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cohcotōntic.

necklace, lazo, rope or string that has broken in many places.

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cohcoxtaloā.

to stretch s.t. so that it will be looser.

# nic. Una persona lo jala una ropa cuando se lo pone y está chiquito. “Pedro lo aguanta un poco su camisa porque no le queda”.

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cohcoxtāltic.

baggy or loose clothing, bag or sack.

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cohcoyāhua.

to stretch clothing, shoes or sacks out repeatedly.

# nic. Una persona lo jala una ropa cuando se lo pone y está chiquito. “Pedro lo aguanta un poco su camisa porque no le queda”.

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cohcoyāhuiliā.

1. to repeatedly stretch out clothing that doesn‘t fit. 1. to repeatedly stretch out s.o.’s clothing that doesn’t fit.

# nic. Una persona lo aguanta una ropa de otro cuando se lo pone y no le queda. “Pedro lo aguanta un poco su camisa porque no le queda”.

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cohcoyāhuiya.

for clothing, shoes or sacks to become stretched out.

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cohcoyoctic.

something which is full of holes.

# Una ropa, un papel o nailo que tiene hoyos. “Un niño chiquito agarra una tijera y corta la ropa de su mamá, ella ahora ya no se lo pone porque tiene hoyos”.

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cohcōztic.

all the ripened fruit.

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cohcoztiya.

1. for all fruit in a certain place to ripen. 2. for an article of white clothing to yellow all at once.

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cohetes.

Orthographic Variants:

cohuete

fireworks
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cohōroh.

un castrated pig.

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cohua.

koːwɑ

Orthographic Variants:

coua

to buy; to buy something; to hire; originally had a reciprocal sense to it (see attestations)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 215.

to buy s.t.

A. Una persona va a la plaza y le dan dinero a otro porque quiere que le traigan algo. “Angelica fue a comprar tomate en la plaza”. B. Comprar algo.

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