Colima

English thumb|Map of Mexico highlighting Colima. Etymology en es Colima, of en nah - origin. Pronunciation en Proper noun en city/and/state c/Mexico. Translations state of Mexico Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 科利馬 Kēlìmǎ Greek: el Κολίμα f Marathi: mr कोलिमा n Polish: pl Colima f Russian: ru Коли́ма f Spanish: es Colima f See also Spanish es: Etymology es nci Collimān the name of a historic kingdom roughly situated in modern-day Colima, of nci 1 1 further origin; however, the most probable proposed etymology is the following: Based on the hieroglyph for nci Collimān in the Codex Mendoza, depicting a bent arm next to a river, the linguist Javier Bravo Magaña reconstructs a es nci *Ācollimān, derived from a nci ātl acolli -mān water shoulder 1 locative suffix 1. Magaña identifies the attested form nci Collimān as a shortened variant derived via apheresis of the initial /a/, a phonetic shift also observed in other Nahuatl toponyms.es Bravo Magaña Javier 1985 El significado de “Colima”: un estudio lingüístico Relaciones: Estudios de Historia y Sociedad VI 24 69-90 Zamora de Higaldo, Michoacán In toponyms, nci acolli is used metaphorically to describe the bending of a nearby river; thus, the toponym nci *Ācollimān would roughly mean "the place where the water twists" or "the place of the river bend". The historian Ernesto Terríquez Sámano supports this theory further by positing that the "bent arm" glyph is actually a hydrographic map of the Armería River at es Caxitlán the capital city of Collimān, where it makes a distinct elbow-like turn.es Terríquez Sámano Ernesto Historia de un equívoco. El significado de Colima 2015 Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado de Colima Colima, Colimaes Redacción Colima Noticias Ernesto Terríquez Sámano demuestra el verdadero significado de Colima Colima Noticias https://web.archive.org/web/20181101124731/https://www.colimanoticias.com/ernesto-terriquez-samano-demuestra-el-verdadero-significado-de-colima/ 2015-07-26 Pronunciation Proper noun f es city/and/state c/Mexico. Derived terms es colimense colimeño mochuelo de Colima See also References Turkish tr: Proper noun tr city/and/state c/Mexico.