What does "mohave" mean?

A Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.

Mohave

Common synonyms include: mojave language, arid, colorado river tribe, desert of mojave, desertlike, mohave desert.

/moʊˈhɑː.vi/ name, noun

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Noun

1
A Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert. plural, plural-only
2
the Yuman language spoken by the Mohave wordnet
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

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