Variant: or Yak · i · ma
Pronunciation: ' ya-k ə - ˌ mo ̇
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural Yakama or Yakamas or Yakima or Yakimas
Etymology: earlier Eyakima, the Yakima River, Yakamas, perhaps from Sahaptin iyakíma, literally, pregnant ones
Date: 1838
1 : a member of a group of Sahaptin peoples of the lower Yakima River valley, south central Washington
2 : the language of the Yakama people