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Zinacantán

Zinacantán proper noun: a municipality (municipio) in Chiapas, Mexico, more fully San Lorenzo Zinacantán.

Proper noun

Zinacantán

  1. A municipality (municipio) in Chiapas, Mexico, more fully San Lorenzo Zinacantán.

Forms of Zinacantán

alternative formZinacantan

Origin of Zinacantán

From Spanish Zinacantán, from Nahuatl Tzinacantlan "place of bats", from tzinacan "bat" + -tlan. Compare Tzotzil (the local language of Zinacantán) sots'leb with the same meaning.

Questions about Zinacantán

What does Zinacantán mean?
Zinacantán means a municipality (municipio) in Chiapas, Mexico, more fully San Lorenzo Zinacantán.
What part of speech is Zinacantán?
Zinacantán is a proper noun.

Words near Zinacantán in the dictionary

  1. zimzum
  2. zin
  3. zina
  4. Zinab
  5. Zinacantan
  6. Zinacantán
  7. Zinaida
  8. Zinal
  9. zinalsite
  10. zinalsites
  11. zinar

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