Yaqui

[ yah-kee ]

noun

, plural Ya·quis, (especially collectively) Ya·qui

1. Also called Yo·em·e [yoh-, em, -ey]. a member of an Indigenous people of Sonora, Mexico, now living also in other parts of northwestern Mexico and in Arizona and Texas.
2. Also called Yo·em No·ki [yoh, -em , noh, -kee]. the Uto-Aztecan language of the Yaqui.
3. a river in northwestern Mexico, flowing into the Gulf of California. 420 miles (676 kilometers) long.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Yaqui or their language.

Yaqui

/ ˈjaki /

noun

1. a river in NW Mexico, rising near the border with the US and flowing south to the Gulf of California. Length: about 676 km (420 miles)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Yaqui¹

First recorded in 1860–65; from Mexican Spanish, from earlier Hiaquis (plural), from Yaqui hiaki, hiyaki “the Yaqui River”

Example Sentences

The tribes were already very numerous, including that of the Yaqui (Nahuas).

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The Mayo and Yaqui valleys were now made a separate rectorate.

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He was down in the Yaqui River country in Mexico, where heavy construction work was under way.

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At last we entered hilly country and the streams pushed with rapidity, flowing to the Yaqui, flowing to the sea.

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Turning back along the eastern slope of the Sierras, he recrossed them, with terrible hardship, into the lower Yaqui valley.

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