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English
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.
Proper noun
Zinacantán
- A municipality (municipio) in Chiapas, Mexico, more fully San Lorenzo Zinacantán.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Tzinacantlan (“place of bats”), from tzinacan (“bat”) + -tlan. Compare Tzotzil sots'leb (the local language of Zinacantán) with the same meaning.
Proper noun
Zinacantán m
- Zinacantán