mamali.

Headword: 
mamali.
Principal English Translation: 

to drill or sweep something, or to split or insert oneself among many people (see Molina); also, to inaugurate

IPAspelling: 
mɑmɑli
Alonso de Molina: 

mamali. tetlan nino. (pret. tetlan oninomamal.) hender, o meterse entre mucha gente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

mamali. nitla. (pret. onitlamamal.) taladrar, o barrenar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents mamali in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

.iii. tochtl. xiuitl. Inic momamal yn iteocaltzin ȳ sanct juº bapᵗª. / yvā ōcā tiçacamoq̄ otlamaxallco = Three Rabbit year. At this time the church of San Juan Bautista was inaugurated. And we cleared ground for cultivation at Otlamaxalco.
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 284–285.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)