/pap"euh goh', pah"peuh-/ , n. , pl. Papagos , ( esp. collectively ) Papago for 1.
1. a member of a North American Indian people closely related to the Pima and now living mainly in southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico.
2. the Uto-Aztecan language of the Papago Indians, closely related to Pima.
[ pápago, earlier papabo ( s ), shortening of papabi-ootam
bá·bawi-óodham Papago(s), equiv. to bá·bawi tepary beans + óodham Piman ]