P | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter P: Displaying 141 - 160 of 1587

paina.

Orthographic Variants:

payna

to run fast (see Lockhart); to run lightly (see Molina); or, to cross, to move (see Lacadena)

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Painal.

Orthographic Variants:

Paynal

a deity; "Swift Runner" was the delegate, substitute, or deputy of Huitzilopochtli

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 94.

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Painal.

Orthographic Variants:

Paynal

a deity, "one who hastens [others]," historically one who represented Huitzilopochtli in processions; sacrifices were offered to him

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1950), 1.

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painaliztli.

Orthographic Variants:

paynaliztli

the act of running loosely and lightly (see Molina)

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painaltia.

Orthographic Variants:

paynaltia

to make someone run loosely and lightly (see Molina)

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paitia.

pɑhiːtiɑː

Orthographic Variants:

pahītiā

to take medicine or poison; to administer medicine or poison to someone (see Karttunen)

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paje.

Orthographic Variants:

baxe, bange

a page, a cabin boy (see attestations)

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palach.

male turkey.

# un animal macho y muy grande, de cuerpo redondo, sus patas largas y su cabeza también un poco largo, unos de color negro, de muchos colores y blancos. “mañana vamos a comer un guajolote porque Anna va a cumplir anos”.

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palachhuiā.

for the male turkey to tread the female.

# qui/mo. Un guajolote macho se sube sobre el guajolote hembra. “El guajolote de Hilda cuando estuvo debajo de otro lo lastimaron”.

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palachhuīca.

for the male turkey to tread (or mount) the female.

# qui. (Se ocupa nada más para ellos) Guajolotes machos se suben en los guajolotes hembras. “No me gusta que se suban el guajolote de Ana en mi guajolote hembra porque lo lastima mucho en su espalda”.

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palachtiā.

for the male turkey to tread the female.

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palacio.

Orthographic Variants:

balacio, balaçio, falacio, palasio, palacion, pallacio

palace (a loanword from Spanish)

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palactic.

pɑlɑːktik

Orthographic Variants:

palāctic

something rotten (see Karttunen)

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palanaltia.

pɑlɑːnɑltiːɑ

for something to rot, become putrid (see Molina and Karttunen)

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palancacoatl.

a type of serpent, a Central American fer de lance, also called a nauhyanca; a painting is available in the DFC
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 86v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/86v/images/0 Accessed 3 November 2025.

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