chalani.

Headword: 
chalani.
Principal English Translation: 

to talk a lot; for something such as a pot or copper pot to crack or for such vessels to make a noise together; for a song or instrument to be out of tune (see Karttunen) (an onomatopoetic word)

IPAspelling: 
tʃɑlɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

chalani. (pret. ochalan.) caxcarse la vasija de barro, o de cobre o desentonarse el canto, o el instrumento musical.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHALĀN(I) for something such as a pot or copper pot to crack or for such vessels to make a noise together; for a song or instrument to be out of tune / cascarse la vasija de barro, o de cobre, o desentonarse el canto, o el instrumento musical (M) Z gives escurre as a gloss for this , apparently in the sense of trickling or dripping from a crack.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 45.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

chalani = hablar mucho
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/chalani/181713

themes: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Music, Song, Dance
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)