Oaxaca

Borrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (“a type of tree”) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /wɑːˈhɑː.kɑː/, /wəˈhɑː.kɑː/

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Oaxaca

1. A city in Mexico.
2. A municipality whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
3. One of the 31 states of Mexico, formally the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, located in the southern part of the country, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

• (city): Oaxaca City

Oaxaca (countable and uncountable, plural Oaxacas)

1. A white, semihard cheese from Mexico.

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Huāxacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (“a type of tree”) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /waˈxaka/

Oaxaca f

1. Oaxaca (city)
2. Oaxaca (municipality)
3. Oaxaca (state)

• OA (abbreviation)

• oaxaqueño

• Oaxaca on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es