nagual

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Noun

nagual (plural naguals or naguales)

  1. (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?

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naˈɡwal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: na‧gual

Noun

nagual m (plural naguales)

  1. alternative form of nahual

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