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zoma.

Headword: 
zoma.
Principal English Translation: 

to frown in anger (see Karttunen); to become angry

Orthographic Variants: 
zōmā, çoma
IPAspelling: 
soːmɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ZŌMĀ vrefl, pret: ZŌMAH to frown in anger / yo tengo ceño como enojado (C for first pers. sg. subject).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 348.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

mozōma = he's angry
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 195.

zōma = irritate, annoy
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 57.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

çoma, zoma = enojarse
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxxvi.

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