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minas.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
minas.
Principal English Translation: 

mines (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

The loanword minas (from Spanish) appears as a surname in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 839 recto.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=752&st=image&r=0.625,0...