Michoacan

See also: Michoacán

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Michoacán, from Classical Nahuatl Michhuahcan (“place of fish”).

Proper noun

Michoacan

  1. Alternative form of Michoacán; a state of Mexico.
    • 2025 September 24, Renee Hickman and Brad Brooks, “Footage of deadly ICE shooting in Chicago suburb challenges official narrative”, in Reuters‎[1]:
      Villegas Gonzalez left his hometown of Irimbo, in Mexico's Michoacan state, 18 years ago for the U.S. and worked as a cook in Chicago, his older brother Jorge Villegas Gonzalez told Reuters.
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