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chachapaca.

Headword: 
chachapaca.
Principal English Translation: 

for rain to patter down in big drops, to sprinkle (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tʃɑtʃɑpɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CHACHAPACA for rain to patter down in big drops, to sprinkle / cuando las pellas son muchas (C), caer grandes gotas, llover (S), salpica, rocia (Z) [(1)Cf.74r,(3)Zp.111,113,150]. In one of the attestations in Z the vowel of the third syllable is marked long, but it should be short. See CHAPĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 44.

themes: 
Weather, Climate