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Welcome to the largest Quechua educational and research project on the Internet. This open and editable dictionary aims to offer a tool where, on the one hand, users broaden knowledge about the different meanings that each of the words and expressions of Quechua can adopt. And, on the other hand, give the same community the ability to expand the database with new words, unknown or unregistered, or expand the different meanings that can adopt the existing words. For identical words and according to which country of the world we move, it is very frequent to find completely different uses, that is why, once the official definition is mentioned, the dictionary allows users to expand it with new meanings or nuances. In short, a dictionary edited by users and for users. Daily among all the meanings uploaded by users will select one of them as word, expression or theme of the day. This meaning will appear on the home page just after this presentation for at least 24 hours. Finally, we have made the project extensible to words from other languages ??or disciplines, you can access these dictionaries through the drop-down that appears next to the search box and the operation is identical to the main dictionary. Hoping that the use of the dictionary is to his liking we say goodbye.

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First of all, we want to thank all the collaborators for their help, since without them and them this project would not be possible. Since the ship sailed there in 2010 we have received a total of 482 Contributions to define 355 different words or expressions that have consulted more than 100,000 readers and have directly helped 0 people who asked the dictionary for a word that was not Registered therein.

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tami
  7

It is the name of a timber tree of very light wood, which is also known as balsa or guaguaripo, guano, lano, lanero, topa, polak or balso. Its scientific name is Ochroma pyramidale or Ochroma lagopus and it belongs to the family Malvaceae. This name is given in Peru and Bolivia.

  


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unku
  6

Also used is Unqa, Uturunco or better Uturunku is the Quechua name of the Puma, American Tiger or better known as the Jaguar. Its scientific name is Panthera Onca. There is the legend of the Runa Uturuunku (of the jaguar man).

  
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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

tami
  7

It is the name of a timber tree of very light wood, which is also known as balsa or guaguaripo, guano, lano, lanero, topa, polak or balso. Its scientific name is Ochroma pyramidale or Ochroma lagopus and it belongs to the family Malvaceae. This name is given in Peru and Bolivia.

  
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Jhostin

minchhaqa
  17

Day after tomorrow

  
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Roberto Giménez

alalaw
  49

The meaning of alalaw is to have cold for example you have cold and you can cir this word (alalaw). Some synonyms, words or similar expressions can be láp 39 , , lápha , lapacho , etc.

  
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furoya

ayalaykuna
  38

The problem with writing Quechua is in finding the Spanish letters that most closely resemble the pronunciation, which ends in very subjective transliterations. I suppose 'ayalaykuna' is a word formed by ayalay, achalay or achallay, which is an "exclamation of amazement or surprise, usually for something pleasant (but not necessarily)", or perhaps Ayalay is for the name of a population in the province of Lucanas (Peru), or perhaps a variant of achachay, which is a "pain from extreme temperatures", although this one seems less likely to me. In any case, it is attached to the suffix -kuna which is interpreted as "much, in quantity, plural-forming". I think then it can be translated as "I'm very surprised!", or "those of the Achalay people", or "it hurts me a lot because of the cold (or the heat)". See k'achachay .

  
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shungo
  38

For many who speak Quechua dialects it can mean heart. The Quechua word proper should be chunku and means corrillo, meeting of people talking. It also means affection, tenderness, love.

  
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