n., pl., Pima, or -mas.
- A Native American people inhabiting south-central Arizona along the Gila and Salt rivers.
- A member of this people.
- The Uto-Aztecan language of the Pima, dialectally related to Papago.
[From American Spanish Pimahitos, Pimas, from obsolete Pima pimahaitu, nothing (misunderstood by missionaries as a tribal name).]
Piman Pi'man adj.
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