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yanacona

/ʝanaˈkona/

noun, masculine/feminine/ʝanaˈkona/plural: yanaconas

yanacona is masculine or feminine depending on context in Spanish.

yanacona; a traitor against Mapuche people

Borrowed from Quechua yanakuna. The sense of "traitor" used by Mapuche people in Chile was derived from Yanakuna auxiliaries participating in the Conquest of Chile as enemies of the Mapuche tribes.