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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Pima

Uto-Aztecan people of Arizona, from Spanish, probably from native pi ma:c "(I) don't know," given in answer to some question long ago and mistaken by the Spaniards as a tribal name. Related: Piman.

Gazetteer
Pima, AZ -- U.S. town in Arizona
Population (2000): 1989
Housing Units (2000): 735
Land area (2000): 2.527301 sq. miles (6.545679 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002770 sq. miles (0.007175 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.530071 sq. miles (6.552854 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55560
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 32.888631 N, 109.828279 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 85543
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Pima, AZ
Pima
Pima -- U.S. County in Arizona
Population (2000): 843746
Housing Units (2000): 366737
Land area (2000): 9186.265302 sq. miles (23792.316898 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.565306 sq. miles (6.644112 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9188.830608 sq. miles (23798.961010 sq. km)
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 32.178410 N, 111.088624 W
Headwords:
Pima
Pima, AZ
Pima County
Pima County, AZ
Wikipedia
Pima

The Pima people are a group of Native Americans living in Arizona (USA) and Sonora (Mexico).

Pima or PIMA may also refer to:

Places
  • Pima, Arizona, a town in Graham County
  • Pima Villages, historical villages of the Pima people.
  • Pima Air & Space Museum, in Arizona
  • Pima, Burkina Faso, a village
  • Pima Canyon
  • Pima Community College, in Tucson, Arizona
  • Pima County, Arizona
  • Pima Freeway, a piece of the Loop 101 in Metropolitan Phoenix
Other
  • Pima (moth), a snout moth genus of tribe Phycitini
  • Pima Revolt, 1751 revolt against Spanish settlers in Arizona
  • Pima cotton
PIMA
  • Pacific Islands Museums Association
  • Performance and Interactive Media Arts, graduate program at Brooklyn College, CUNY
  • Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association

Usage examples of "pima".

As of today, Cochise County is two ahead of Pima in terms of homicide victims for the year.

While we were traveling if a woman became heavy with child we would build her a house and put plenty of food in it and leave her there, and from these women sprang the Pima, Maricopa, and other Indians in the South.

The Pima and Papago bands of the Sonora Desert were the only nations both the Na-dene, or Apache, and ferocious Yaqui, or Unreconstructed Aztec, had long since learned to leave the hell alone.

The two-lane road and its traffic wound on for a mile or so, flanked by rustic signs indicating the way to Pima Point, the Tusayan Museum, and widely scattered tourist lodges called Yavapai, Maswik, Thunderbird, and Kachina.

Unlike most of the men on the terrace, Zamora wore no tie, just a collarless white pima cotton shirt buttoned at the neck.

This was Pima or Papago country, and they were Indians who were friendly to us, and who fought the Apaches on every occasion.