Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🧑‍🦱 A Native American group 🗣️ A native language
Cocopah

Cocopah

9.9
A person from a Native American group near the mouth of the Colorado River in the United States and Mexico
  • noun
  • /ˈkoʊkoʊpɑː/
translation icon : Cocopah
  • Several Cocopah elders gathered to share stories about their history.

Examples

  • The Cocopah have maintained many aspects of their traditional culture.

  • He attended a cultural event hosted by the Cocopah tribe.

  • The Cocopah tribe has a rich cultural heritage.

  • Many Cocopahs continue to practice traditional crafts.

  • He attended a cultural event hosted by the Cocopah tribe.

  • Several Cocopah elders gathered to share stories about their history.

  • The Cocopah have maintained many aspects of their traditional culture.

Synonyms

Cocopa
vsCocopah
9.9

A person from a Native American group near the lower Colorado River

is the alternative name form reflecting minor regional naming difference

Compounds

Cocopah language
9.9

A Native American language spoken by the Cocopah people in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico

Surface Forms

Cocopah singular
Cocopahs plural

Etymology

Cocopah comes from the name this group use for themselves in their Yuman language, later written by Spanish and English speakers as 'Cocopa'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a people living by the lower Colorado River, so Cocopah means the tribe from that region.