Definition of Jicarilla in English:
Jicarilla
nounPlural Jicarillas ˌhɪkəˈriːljə
1A member of an Apache people of northern New Mexico.
Example sentencesExamples
- Later materials include one rim sherd from a Jicarilla micaceous-ware vessel that dates to roughly A.D.1720-1750 and Euroamerican items.
- My mother is half Puerto Rican - her father was born in San Juan Puerto Rico and her mother was born in Taos, New Mexico on the Jicarilla Apache reservation.
- Nonetheless some Apaches, notably the Jicarillas, became friends and allies of the Spanish.
2mass noun The Athabaskan language of the Jicarilla.
Example sentencesExamples
- The last thousand speakers of Jicarilla Apache have such concern over the loss of their language that some are working with a University of New Mexico linguist to compile a dictionary.
- The Southwestern Athapascan language has seven dialects: Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, and Kiowa-Apache.
adjectiveˌhɪkəˈriːljə
Relating to the Jicarilla or their language.
Example sentencesExamples
- When the first Jicarilla tribal council was elected, ten of its 18 members were medicine men and five others were traditional leaders from chiefs' families.
Origin
Mexican Spanish: diminutive of jicara, the fruit of the calabash tree, from Nahuatl.