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Letter P: Displaying 1 - 20 of 137

padre.

Orthographic Variants: 
pre, pe, presme, patresme, padreme, patre, Badre

father; priest

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padrino.

godparent
(a loanword from Spanish)

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paila.

a pan, a metal pot
(a loanword from Spanish)

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palacio.

Orthographic Variants: 
balacio, balaçio, falacio, palasio, palacion, pallacio

palace (a loanword from Spanish)

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palio.

pallium, a pontifical ornament, worn by patriarchs and archbishops; a cloak, short mantle; a canopy; a premium or a plate given as a reward in horse racing; seemingly also the horse racing or horse spectacle itself
(a loanword from Spanish)

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palo.

stick, pole
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pan.

wheat bread; also sometimes used to refer to tortillas

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pañizuelo.

a small cloth, such as a handkerchief or a napkin (see attestations); in the one attestation we have, there is no tilde over the n, but it would have one today: https://tureng.com/en/spanish-english/pa%C3%B1izuelo

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paño.

woolens, cloth

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para.

for
(a loanword from Spanish)

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parada.

a place were cattle are corralled; or, the dam of a river or channel of water
(a loanword from Spanish)

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paraíso.

Orthographic Variants: 
paraiso

paradise
(a loanword from Spanish)

Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 95–96.

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pardo.

dark in color; brown, gray
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pareja.

couple, pair
(a loanword from Spanish)

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parejo.

pair, paired, equal
(a loanword from Spanish

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párrafo.

Orthographic Variants: 
parrapho

paragraph
(a loanword from Spanish)

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parte.

part
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pasa.

raisin
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pasado.

Orthographic Variants: 
pasato

past, referring to an official who has served in a previous year
(a loanword from Spanish; an adjective)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 229.

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pasar.

to pass
(a loanword from Spanish)

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