Inca

inca încă Translingual thumb|Inca pulverulenta species. Etymology Borrowed from mul fr Inca, from mul es inca, from mul qwc inka. mul Q482189 and mul 1 Q1684882 1828. Proper noun f 1 genus family Scarabaeidae certain New World scarabs Derived terms Golinca genus Incaina subtribe Incala genus Pseudinca genus See also Q14945671 1 mul Scarabaeoids English Etymology en es inca, from en qwc inka emperor. Pronunciation en /ˈɪŋkə/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Inca.wav Southern England en inker non-rhotic en ɪŋkə 2 Noun s * A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest. en 24-06-2007 Arthur Lubow The Possessed w:The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/magazine/24MachuPicchu-t.html To honor the spirits that take form as mountains, the Inca stoneworkers carved rock outcrops to replicate their shapes. https://web.archive.org/web/20260109042928/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/magazine/24MachuPicchu-t.html 9 January 2026 en w:Simon Romero High in the Andes, Keeping an Incan Mystery Alive w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/world/americas/17peru.html 16-08-2010 Archaeologists say the Incas, brought down by the Spanish conquest, used khipus – strands of woolen cords made from the hair of animals like llamas or alpacas – as an alternative to writing. https://web.archive.org/web/20251010020554/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/world/americas/17peru.html 10 October 2025 Derived terms en Inca dove Inca lily Peruvian Inca Orchid Incan Translations member of the group of Quechuan peoples Catalan: ca inca m f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 印加 Yìnjiā Czech: cs Inka m Danish: da inka c Esperanto: eo Inkao male, eo Inkaino female Finnish: fi inka French: fr Inca m f German: de Inka m Icelandic: is Inki m Irish: ga Inceach m Japanese: ja インカ Inka Korean: ko ^잉카, ko ^잉카인 Latin: la Inca m Marathi: mr इन्का Norwegian: Bokmål: nb inka m Nynorsk: nn inka m Polish: pl Inka m Portuguese: pt inca m f Russian: ru и́нка Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Инка m f Latin: sh Inka m f Spanish: es inca m f Anagrams en acin NIAC Naic Cain -cain- cinA Nica cain NACI, inca Catalan Pronunciation Proper noun ? ca city on the isl:suf/Mallorca acomm/Balearic Islands c/Spain Related terms ca inquer Dutch Etymology Borrowed from nl es inca, from nl qu Inka. Pronunciation nl /ˈɪŋ.kaː/ nl Nl-Inca.ogg nl In ca Noun m,f -'s - en Inca member of a Quechuan people Derived terms nl incalelie nl Incarijk nl Incastad nl Incatempel nl Incavolk Latin Noun Inca<1.both> m la New Latin an en Inca la, In Archivos/Arquivos do Instituto de Pesquisas Agronomicas (GBS): la Ex genere forsan Incarum et Aztecarum, qui etiam a pristina prolapsi erant humanitate, cum eis obviam ierunt Hispanici Domitores. 1815, Joannis Severinus Vaterus (Johann Severin Vater), Linguarum totius orbis Index alphabeticus, quarum Grammaticae, Lexica, collectiones vocabulorum recensentur, patria significatur, historia adumbratur (Litteratur der Grammatiken, Lexica und Wörtersammlungen aller Sprachen der Erde nach alphabetischer Ordnung der Sprachen, mit einer gedrängten Uebersicht des Vaterlandes, der Schicksale und Verwandtschaft derselben), Berlin, p. 196: la Lingua Peruviae propriae ab Incis per totum eorum imperium propagata, cuius cum aliis linguis nexum aliquem habuit, cum Aimara cognationem. Declension Inca<1.both> Quechua Noun qu noun qu Inka Declension