What Balam means
Also glossed guardian of the forest: the balamob are protective spirits of the milpa. The word runs through Maya titles and the Chilam Balam books, whose name means roughly jaguar interpreter.
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Balam
“jaguar”
Say it
BAH·lahm
Classical form
Yucatec Maya báalam (jaguar), from Proto-Mayan *bʼahlam
Names built from Balam
1 name on this site uses this word.
Maya words you meet in Mexico
Yucatec Maya words that survive in place names, food and given names: cenote the sinkhole, balam the jaguar, nicte the flower, kin the sun, ha water, pib the earth oven.
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