Words from Veraguas
Veraguas is the only province that touches both oceans, and between Santiago, the highlands and the coast it gathers inland vocabulary the capital barely uses. These are the words the corpus records as Veraguas’, with definition, register and the era they belong to.
8 entries in this list
chácara
A bag hand-woven from plant fiber by Ngäbe women, an elastic mesh strong enough to carry a harvest.
cutarra
A rustic leather sandal, the traditional footwear of the Panamanian countryside and part of the montuno outfit.
mejorana
A small five-string guitar native to the Panamanian countryside, and by extension the musical genre played on it.
nagua
The long loose dress worn by Ngäbe women, in strong colors with bands of sewn triangles at the chest and hem.
ngäbere
The language of the Ngäbe people, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in Panama.
pesada de nance
A thick sweet of nance cooked with corn and raw cane sugar, served in a small cup.
raspadura
A block of evaporated, unrefined cane juice.
sancocho
Panama's national soup: free-range hen, yam, culantro and oregano.