nagual

• IPA^(key): /nəˈɡwɑːl/

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?

• nagualism

• Laguna

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

nagual m (plural naguales)

1. alternative form of nahual

• “nagual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024