Aymara

American  

[ahy-mah-rah] / ˌaɪ mɑˈrɑ /

noun

plural

Aymaras,

plural

Aymara

1. a member of an Indian people living in the mountainous regions around Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru.

2. the language of the Aymara people.

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Aymara British  

/ ˌaɪməˈrɑː /

noun

1. a member of a South American Indian people of Bolivia and Peru

2. the language of this people, probably related to Quechua

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Other Word Forms

• Aymaran adjective

Etymology

Origin of Aymara

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Under former President Evo Morales, an Aymara indigenous leader who ruled from 2006 to 2019, Bolivia expelled the American ambassador and U.S. counterdrug officials.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

The six-inch-long reptile, called a jararanko—which translates to “lizard” in the Indigenous Aymara language—climbs onto a rock, basking in the sunlight.

From National Geographic • Oct. 26, 2023

Once there, they knelt, praying in Aymara, Quechua as well as Spanish, their eyes tightly closed with hands extended to the heavens.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2023

Dozens of Quechua and Aymara activists lie on mattresses strewn on the floor, resting up for more anti-government demonstrations as volunteers cook a breakfast of donated rice, pasta and vegetables.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2023

The official and principal tongue was the Qquichua, the two other languages of importance being the Yunca, spoken by the coast tribes, and the Aymara, around Lake Titicaca and south of it.

From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison