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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert. plural, plural-only
2. 2
   the Yuman language spoken by the Mohave wordnet
3. 3
   a member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A Yuman language spoken by Mohave people of California and Arizona.

Synonyms

All synonyms

mohave languagemojavemojavemojave language

Etymology

From a shortened form of the endonym, Mojave Hamakhaave (“beside the water”), spelled Mojave in Spanish.

Related phrases

Mohave Countynative american

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.