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Pima|ˈpiːmə|
Also 9 Pimo.
[‘Said to be from a native word meaning ‘no’ incorrectly understood and applied by missionaries. The term prob. was brought into American use from Spanish.’ (D.A.)]
1. A North American Indian people living chiefly along the Gila and Salt rivers in Arizona; a member of this people. Also, the Uto-Aztecan language of the Pima and Papago, especially the dialect of the Pima. Also attrib. See also Papago n. and a.
[1775P. Font Diary 29 Oct. (1913) 16 Muy de mañana se despacharon unos Yndios, â dar aviso de nuestra venida â los Pimas del rio Gila.] 1850California Courier (San Francisco) 3 July 2/3 From the Pecos river in Texas to the Pimos villages on the Gila, roving bands of Apaches are hovering around the emigrants, stealing their animals. 1864Harper's Mag. Dec. 23/2 It was gratifying..to know that the Pimos were rapidly becoming a civilized people. 1884,1912[see Hohokam n. and a.]. 1918A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Totem & Taboo (1919) ii. 68 After a Pima Indian had killed an Apache he had to submit himself to severe ceremonies of purification and expiation. 1932W. L. Graff Lang. 430 The Uto-Aztec group comprises the three branches of Shoshonean, Pima-Sonoran, and Nahuatl. 1959C. Ogburn Marauders vi. 189 Herman Manuel was a swarthy, squat Pima Indian from Arizona. 1960C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 414/2 Pima-Papago, a general term used to describe the art of the south-west Indians of the United States. It includes the techniques of several crafts. 1962D. H. Hymes in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 118 The functional load of /p/ in a community cannot be analyzed apart from the nature and use of various channels, as when among the Pima the functional load of /p/ differs between singing and recitation. 1964S. M. Lamb in Univ. Calif. Publ. Linguistics XXXIV. 110 The Papagos speak Pima. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics X. 141 Daughter languages of the Uto-Aztecan family..(Hopi, Pima-Papago, [etc.]). 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 1009/3 Piman languages, Uto-Aztecan language group.., including Papago, Pima, [etc.]. 1979Tucson Mag. Apr. 26/1 Ask a Pima or a Papago Indian— these are people who have been here for hundreds of years.
2. [f. Pima County, S. Arizona.] In full Pima cotton. A fine quality cotton developed from Egyptian cotton. Also attrib.
1936Sears Catal. (ed. 173) 469 Pima is the finest of all American cotton. 1953New Biol. XIV. 59 In Arizona a local selection of Egyptian origin, known as Pima, proved to be long but relatively weak. 1962A. Huxley Island ix. 134 A Whisper-Pink Bra in Dacron and Pima Cotton. 1965J. M. Cain Magician's Wife (1966) xii. 86 She met him downstairs..in dark blue pima suit. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 23 Oct. 9/6 (Advt.), Nothing compares to our handsome, pure pima cotton broadcloth plain collar shirts. |