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xamania.

Headword: 
xamania.
Principal English Translation: 

to crack a head open or to break a gourd vessel (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ʃɑmɑːniɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

xamania. nitla. (pret. onitlaxamani.) caxcar o quebrantar cabeza o vaso de xical.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 158v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XAMĀNIĀ vt to crack, break someone’s head or a gourd vessel / cascar o quebrantar cabeza o vaso de jical (M) This is not directly attested but is implied by XAMĀN(I) and TLAXAMĀNĪL-LI. See XAMĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 322.