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Cupan

Cupan adjective: of or pertaining to the branch of the Uto-Aztecan languages containing the Cahuilla, Cupeño and Luiseño languages of southern California.

Adjective

Cupan (comparative more Cupan, superlative most Cupan)

  1. Of or pertaining to the branch of the Uto-Aztecan languages containing the Cahuilla, Cupeño and Luiseño languages of southern California.

Forms of Cupan

comparativemore Cupan
superlativemost Cupan

Origin of Cupan

From Cupeño Cupa, the name of the Cupeño people for their homeland, or from Cupeño + -an.

Questions about Cupan

What does Cupan mean?
Cupan means of or pertaining to the branch of the Uto-Aztecan languages containing the Cahuilla, Cupeño and Luiseño languages of southern California.
What part of speech is Cupan?
Cupan is an adjective.

Words near Cupan in the dictionary

  1. cup-tossers
  2. Cupa
  3. cupalite
  4. cupalo
  5. cupalos
  6. Cupan
  7. cupang
  8. Cupar
  9. cuparane
  10. cuparanes
  11. cupbearer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cupan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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