nagual
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nəˈɡwɑːl/
Noun
nagual (plural naguals)
- (Mesoamerican mythology) Alternative form of nahual
- 1986, John M. Ingham, Mary, Michael, and Lucifer: Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico, page 119:
- If a cross of lime is painted on the bottom of a metate it becomes "too heavy" for a nagual to carry.
- 2021, Pedro Mairal, chapter 6, in The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- Who would want a dog like that? ... Double animal, nagual—whose?
Derived terms
Anagrams
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /naˈɡwal/ [naˈɣ̞wal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: na‧gual
Further reading
- “nagual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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