Jicarilla

1. An Apache tribe formerly inhabiting southeast Colorado and northern New Mexico and ranging eastward to the Great Plains, with a present-day population in northern New Mexico.
2. A member of this tribe.

Origin:

Origin: American Spanish (Apaches de la) Jicarilla, (Apaches of the) Jicarilla

Origin: , probably diminutive of jícara, chocolate-cup (from the shape of a local hill)

Origin: , perhaps from Nahuatl xicalli, gourd, drinking vessel