name
Nim Chokola
neem choh-KOH-lah
niːm tʃoˈkoːlɑListen
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Syllable breakdown
NimChokola
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Mam (Guatemala)
- Meaning
- a Mam masculine name meaning great cacao or the one of the great chocolate tree; nim means great or large in Mam, and chokola refers to the cacao tree, whose seeds were so sacred and economically central to Mesoamerican civilisations that they served as currency and as the basis of ritual drinks consumed by rulers and priests; to give a son a name invoking greatness and the sacred cacao tree is to mark him for abundance, ceremonial importance, and the nourishing generosity that the cacao plant represents in the agricultural spiritual life of the Maya highlands
- Gender
- male
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