Tarascan

[ tuh-ras-kuhn, -rahs- ]

noun

, plural Ta·ras·cans, (especially collectively) Ta·ras·can

1. a member of an Indigenous people of Michoacán state, in southwestern Mexico.
2. the language of the Tarascans.

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tarascan¹

First recorded in 1910–15; from Spanish Tarasco, from Tarascan tarascue “father-in-law; son-in-law” + -an ( def )

Example Sentences

Painted on pine panels mounted in an arch beneath the choir, the images were likely completed in the mid-1600s, less than 150 years after the first Franciscan missionaries arrived here in the Meseta Purépecha, or Tarascan Plateau, a highland region in the Michoacán state named for the Indigenous community that resides there.

From New York Times

The description says the collection contains Aztec, Mayan and Tarascan pieces.

From Seattle Times

The first Tarascan name is given in the spelling used by Tarascans followed by the phonetic equivalent in English in parentheses.

From Project Gutenberg

For the Tarascan "Empire" centering in the state of Michoac�n, a committee of Mexicans and citizens of the United States of America was formed to forward these aims.

From Project Gutenberg

Tarascan friends at Colonia Revoluci�n were eager to have the bodies of the skunks which we caught.

From Project Gutenberg