Maraw

Borrowed from Hopi Maraw (“member of the Maraw society”), from maraw (“a kind of insect”).

Maraw

1. The name of a Hopi women's society.
2. The name of a ceremony of the Maraw society.

Maraw

1. a male given name

• Center for aboriginal studies (2014) “Maraw”, in 原住民族人名譜 [Dictionary of Aboriginal Names in Taiwan]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples

From maraw (“a kind of insect”).

Maraw (plural Mamrawt)

1. member of the Maraw society
2. the Maraw ceremony

• Albert, Roy, Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 39
• Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, pages 231–232