Borrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (huaje) (Leucaena leucocephala) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) A semihard white cheese from the Oaxaca region of Mexico.
Borrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (huaje) (Leucaena leucocephala) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).
Meanings
A city in Mexico.
A municipality whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
A state of Mexico.
The hurricane’s heavy rain created rushing rivers in Oaxaca and neighboring Guerrero Thursday, killing at least one person in San Marcos. 2025 June 19, Mary Gilbert, “Erick, the strongest hurricane to hit Mexico so early in the year, triggers deadly flooding”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025: