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jalma.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
jalma.
Principal English Translation: 

a kind of packsaddle (could be put on a person as a kind of punishment)
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
xalma
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ynic amo huicoc yn ipan xalma yhuan tepusotazquia = por lo que no fue llevado cargando una jalma y grillos (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 492–493.