Mazatlan
/ˌmɑːzəˈtlɑːn/noun
A city and port in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
Did you know?Mazatlán comes from Nahuatl mazatlān, a place-name built from mazatl ‘deer’ plus the locative suffix -tlan, a common Mesoamerican naming pattern for “place of.”
Etymological Timeline
Pre-Columbian Nahuatl
Nah
mazatlān
“place of deer”
16th Century
Spanish
Mazatlán
“Spanish spelling and adaptation of the Indigenous place-name”
Modern Spanish
Spa
Mazatlán
“the city and municipality name in Sinaloa”
Modern English
Eng
Mazatlan
“the English form of the Mexican city name”
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