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taza.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
taza.
Principal English Translation: 

a cup; see tāçah (a loanword from Spanish)

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), 232.

Orthographic Variants: 
taça, tanza
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ey taças = tres tazas
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 242–243.

yvan tanza monamacaz yn ipatiuh mocahuaz teopan = se vendera una taza, todo su valor se quedara en la iglesia (Tlaxcala, 1585)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 283.