"Lenape" meaning in English

See Lenape in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ləˈnɑːpi/ [US]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Lenape
  1. The languages (Munsee, Unami) spoken by all of this group; Delaware Categories (topical): Languages
    Sense id: en-Lenape-en-name-XePscJnd Disambiguation of Languages: 36 42 22
  2. The language spoken in the southern range of this group in coastal Delaware, southern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania; Unami. Categories (topical): Languages Categories (place): Native American tribes Synonyms (language group): Delaware
    Sense id: en-Lenape-en-name-4atHqtB5 Disambiguation of Languages: 36 42 22 Disambiguation of Native American tribes: 10 42 48 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 53 41 Disambiguation of 'language group': 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Unami [Southern] [language, linguistics, human-sciences, sciences]

Noun

IPA: /ləˈnɑːpi/ [US] Forms: Lenapes [plural], Lenape [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|s|Lenape}} Lenape (plural Lenapes or Lenape)
  1. A group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Categories (topical): Languages Categories (place): Native American tribes Synonyms (people): Leni Lanape, Lenni Lanape, Delaware
    Sense id: en-Lenape-en-noun-n7kuvBeR Disambiguation of Languages: 36 42 22 Disambiguation of Native American tribes: 10 42 48

Inflected forms

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