mapache

From Classical Nahuatl māpach, māpachin (“raccoon, thief”), from māpachoā (“to seize, lay hold”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈpat͡ʃe/ [maˈpa̠.t͡ʃɪ]
• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Hyphenation: ma‧pa‧che

mapache m (plural mapaches)

1. (zoology) raccoon (nocturnal omnivore living in Northern America)

   Synonym: osiño lavador

• mapache on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl māpach, māpachin (“raccoon, thief”), from māpachoā (“to seize, lay hold”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈpat͡ʃe/ [maˈpa.t͡ʃe]

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• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Syllabification: ma‧pa‧che

mapache m (plural mapaches)

1. (zoology) raccoon (nocturnal omnivore living in Northern America)

   Synonym: oso lavador

2. (politics, Mexico) electoral thief or fraudster [from early 1990s]

• → Basque: mapatxe

• mapache on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• “mapache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “mapache”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN