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zinacantán

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
zi-nacan-tan
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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

Etymology

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.

Inflected Forms

Zinacantan (alternative)

Questions

What does zinacantán mean?
A municipality (municipio) in Chiapas, Mexico, more fully San Lorenzo Zinacantán.
Where does zinacantán come from?
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.

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