ángel

Ca tun u sihsah Angelob / Heuac chacannili ti Dios binili / Sipic angelobe tan has tze.

1782, Juan Josef Hoil, Chilam Balam of Chumayel; republished as Richard N. Luxton, transl., The Book of Chumayel: The Counsel Book of the Yucatec Maya, 1539-1638, Aegean Park Press, 1995:

Then He engendered the angels. / However, it appeared that God came. / To accuse half the angels of sinning.

Le tʼaanoʼ tu yaʼalaj tiʼ le sexto ángeloʼ máax tiʼ yaan le trompetaeʼ: Wachʼ le can túul ángeloʼob kaxaʼanoʼob tu tzéel le nojoch áalcab jaʼ Éufratesoʼ.

1992, “Apocalipsis 9:14”, in Biblia Maya de Yucatán:

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. (KJV, Revelation 9:14)


aal

son or daughter of a woman (only said of a mother or used by her to refer to her children)


yum

Yum K’áax ("Lord of the Forest": a Mayan god of the forest and chocolate)

Yum Cháak ("Lord of Rain": Chaac, a Mayan rain god)


paal

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paal (plural paalal or paaloʼob or paalaloʼob)

paalal (plural)
paaloʼob (plural)
paalaloʼob (plural)

ka pulik u ok’om óolal jo’oljeak ka jíits’tik tu billil a nook’, / a paalal túune’ tu wenel.

2008, Briceida Cuevas Cob, “Je’ bix k’iin”, in Tiʼ u billil in nookʼ. Del dobladillo de mi ropa, Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas, page 94:

you throw yesterday's sorrows, drawn from the hem of your clothes, / while your children sleep.

Walkila’ yaan kex 100 u túul paalal táan u ts’a’akalo’ob, ba’ale’ ja’ab man ja’abe’ ku yantal kex 75 uláak’ túumben paalal yéetel le k’oja’anila’.

2023 February 13, Cecilia Abreu, “Múuch’kabilo’obe’ ku múul meyajo’ob ti’al uti’al u séeb ila’al wa tsaayal ts’unus ti’ paalal”, in Sasil Sánchez Chan, transl., La Jornada Maya, archived from the original on 2023-03-19:

Currently, there are about 100 children receiving treatment, but each year there are around 75 more children [diagnosed] with this disease.


koh

Puma concolor
Puma concolor#Translingual


pakʼaal

pakʼáal (canonical)
pakʼáaloʼob (plural)


muunyal

múunyal (canonical)
múunyaloʼob (plural)


naj

[...] walkila’ chéen xtokoy kúuchil anik, mina’an u najil, wa ma’ p’eeke’ je’el a p’áatal wenel weye’.

2011, Isaac Esaú Carrillo Can, U yóok’otilo’ob áak’ab. Danzas de la noche (pdf), Conaculta, page 102:

… today, it's just an abandoned lot, there are no houses, you can stay to sleep here if you want.


tsíimin

(obsolete) Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii)

Equus ferus caballus
Equus ferus caballus#Translingual


chʼiichʼ

[ˈt͡ʃʼìːt͡ʃʼ]


báalam

Panthera onca
Panthera onca#Translingual


kiik

Beey xan teech, in yaabilmech, in kiikech.

2011, Marga Beatriz Aguilar Montejo, “U x-waáyilo’ob X-Letra”, in T’aan: Narrativa, Poesía y Dramaturgia, Secretaría de Educación del Estado de Yucatán, page 88:


kakaw

From Proto-Mayan *kakaw, ultimately a borrowing from Proto-Mixe-Zoque *kakawa. Compare Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.


baach

Ortalis vetula
Ortalis vetula#Translingual


chiʼik

Borrowed from a Mixe-Zoquean language, from Proto-Mixe-Zoque *ȼiku.


miztún

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl miztōn.


peekʼ

Borrowed from a Zapotec language (cf. Isthmus Zapotec bi'cu'), from a Mixe-Zoquean language (cf. Isthmus Mixe uk).


wakax

Borrowed from Spanish vacas (“cows”), plural of vaca (“cow”). Cf. Classical Nahuatl huācax.


balcheʼ

→ Spanish: balché

→ English: balché

A kind of tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus), the bark of which is used to make an alcoholic beverage.


kóochakʼ boola

association football
association football


chʼíichʼ

[ˈt͡ʃʼíːt͡ʃʼ]


baʼatsʼ

mantled howler, howler monkey (Alouatta palliata)


chak moʼol

→ English: chacmool

desc

→ Spanish: chac mool, Chac Mool, chac-mool, chacmol


alux

(mythology) alux, a sprite or fairy in Mayan folklore.


bo’oy

According to Terrence Kaufman in Preliminary mayan etymological dictionary is from proto-Yukatekan pYu *b'o7y


ooch kaan

Central American boa constrictor (Boa imperator)


tsuub

Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)


tsʼaʼay

From Proto-Mayan *u-tz'ii7 7eeh, from *tz'i7 (“dog”) + *7eeh (“tooth”).


abalkan

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa#Translingual


jumpʼéel tʼaan

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jumpʼéel tʼaan (plural jumpʼéel tʼaanoʼob)


jumpʼéel tʼaanoʼob

jumpʼéel tʼaan
jumpʼéel tʼaan#Yucatec_Maya


k’uj

junab k’uj

one god; also a name for the Christian God

(religion, Christianity) God in Christianity


tsʼonoʼot

→ Spanish: cenote

→ Dutch: cenote

→ English: cenote

→ French: cénote

→ Italian: cenote

Xen mol ten u mac yit tzʼonot / Cappel sasaci cappel kankani / Yan uol yn hante.

1782, Juan Josef Hoil, Chilam Balam of Chumayel; republished as Richard N. Luxton, transl., The Book of Chumayel: The Counsel Book of the Yucatec Maya, 1539-1638, Aegean Park Press, 1995, lines 1136–1138:

Go and bring me the stopper[s] that plug the cenote, / Two white ones, [and] two yellow ones, / I wish to eat [them].

Ti’ tsoolmeyaj beeta’ab te’e ja’aba’, jts’a’ab k’ajóoltbile’ úuchik u meyaje’ béeychaj u jóok’sa’al ba’al ti’ 116 u p’éel ts’ono’oto’ob yéetel áaktuno’ob.

2023 December 11, Astrid Sánchez, “Jóok’sa’ab kex 4 tóoneladas sojol ichil u ts’ono’otilo’ob Yucatán”, in Sasil Sánchez Chan, transl., La Jornada Maya, retrieved 2024-01-27:

In this year's report, it was announced that with these works, it was possible to extract garbage from 116 cenotes and caves.


chʼúupal

chʼúupal (plural chʼúupalal or chʼúupalaloʼob)

chʼúupalal (plural)
chʼúupalaloʼob (plural)

[ˈt͡ʃʼúːpal]


cháak

(religion, mythology, in the plural) the spirits who bring rain


kʼáaj jaʼ

From kʼáaj + jaʼ, literally "bitter water."


kʼaaj jaʼ

From kʼaaj + jaʼ, literally "bitter water."


seerbéesa

[sèːɾˈbèːsa]


tsíimin kʼáakʼ

Uts tin wich in wilik bix u tíip’il u ni’ le tsíimin k’áak’o’ tu chumukil k’áax nojoch ku yila’al.

2011, Marga Beatriz Aguilar Montejo, “U x-waáyilo’ob X-Letra”, in T’aan: Narrativa, Poesía y Dramaturgia, Secretaría de Educación del Estado de Yucatán, page 79:

I like to see the nose of the train when it appears in the middle of the forest, it looks big.


maayatʼaan

Tu petenil Yucatán kun yáax meyajtbil “Corpus Lingüístico Maya Peninsular”, ti’al u máan mola’antbil maayat’aan jach je’el bix u k’a’abéetkunsa’al t’aan tumen kaaj

2022 June 16, “Tu Petenil Yucatán kun yáax meyajtbil u noj molts’íibil yóok'lal bix u t'a'anal le maayat’aano'”, in Sasil Sánchez Chan, transl., La Jornada Maya, archived from the original on 2023-09-22:

The Yucatan Peninsula will be the first [region] where there will be a "Peninsular Mayan Linguistic Corpus", with the aim of preserving Yucatec Maya as it is spoken by the people.


chʼam

Bromelia pinguin
Wikispecies:Bromelia pinguin