nagual

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nəˈɡwɑːl/

Noun

nagual (plural naguals or naguales)

1. (Mesoamerican mythology) Alternative form of nahual
   • 1986, John M. Ingham, Mary, Michael, and Lucifer: Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico, page 119:

     If a cross of lime is painted on the bottom of a metate it becomes "too heavy" for a nagual to carry.

   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, chapter 6, in The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     Who would want a dog like that? ... Double animal, nagual—whose?

Derived terms

• nagualism

Anagrams

• Laguna

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈɡwal/ [naˈɣ̞wal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: na‧gual

Noun

nagual m (plural naguales)

1. Alternative form of nahual

Further reading

• “nagual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014