Costa Rica

Costa Rica

English

Etymology

From Spanish Costa Rica (“rich coast”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒs.tə ˈɹiː.kə/
• (US) enPR: kōstə rēkə; IPA^(key): /ˌkoʊ.stə ˈɹi.kə/, /ˌkɑ.stə ˈɹi.kə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Costa Rica.

Derived terms

• Costa Rican (adjective)
• CRI

Translations

country

Afrikaans: Costa Rica Albanian: Kostarikë f, Kostarika f (definite) Amharic: ኮስታ ሪካ (kosta rika) Arabic: كُوسْتَارِيكَا‎ f (kostarīkā) Armenian: Կոստա Ռիկա (hy) (Kosta Ṙika) Azerbaijani: Kosta-Rika (az) Belarusian: Коста-Ры́ка f (Kosta-Rýka) Bengali: কোস্টা রিকা (bn) (kosṭa rika) Breton: Costa Rica f, Kosta Rika f Bulgarian: Коста Ри́ка f (Kosta Ríka) Burmese: ကော့စတာရီကာ (kau.ca.tarika) Catalan: Costa Rica (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 哥斯達黎加／哥斯达黎加 (zh) (Gēsīdálíjiā) Corsican: Costa Rica f, Costarica f Czech: Kostarika (cs) f Danish: Costa Rica (da) n Dhivehi: ކޮސްޓަރީކާ‎ (kosṭarīkā) Dutch: Costa Rica (nl) n Esperanto: Kostariko (eo) Estonian: Costa Rica (et) Faroese: Kosta Rika n Finnish: Costa Rica (fi) French: Costa Rica (fr) m Galician: Costa Rica (gl) f Georgian: კოსტა-რიკა (ḳosṭa-riḳa) German: Costa Rica (de) n Greek: Κόστα Ρίκα (el) f (Kósta Ríka) Gujarati: કોસ્ટા રિકા (kosṭā rikā) Hebrew: קוֹסְטָה רִיקָה‎ (he) f (kósta ríka) Hindi: कोस्टा रिका (hi) m (kosṭā rikā) Hungarian: Costa Rica (hu) Icelandic: Kosta Ríka (is) f, Kostaríka f Indonesian: Kosta Rika (id) Interlingua: Costa Rica Irish: Cósta Ríce m Italian: Costa Rica f Japanese: コスタリカ (ja) (Kosutarika) Kannada: ಕೋಸ್ಟಾ ರಿಕ (kn) (kōsṭā rika) Kazakh: Коста-Рика (Kosta-Rika) Khmer: កូស្តារីកា (km) (koustaariikaa) Korean: 코스타리카 (ko) (Koseutarika) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Kosta Rîka (ku) Kyrgyz: Коста-Рика (ky) (Kosta-Rika) Lao: ກົດສະຕາລິກາ (kot sa tā li kā) Latvian: Kostarika (lv) f Lithuanian: Kosta Rika (lt) f Macedonian: Костари́ка f (Kostaríka) Malay: Costa Rica Malayalam: കോസ്റ്റ റീക്ക (kōsṟṟa ṟīkka) Maltese: Kosta Rika f Marathi: कोस्टा रिका (kosṭā rikā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Коста-Рика (mn) (Kosta-Rika) Nepali: कोस्टारिका (kosṭārikā) Norman: Costa Rica Norwegian: Bokmål: Costa Rica (no) n Pashto: کوستاريکا‎ f (kostārikā), کوسټاریکا‎ f (kosṭārikā) Persian: کاستاریکا‎ (kâstârikâ) Polish: Kostaryka (pl) Portuguese: Costa Rica (pt) Romanian: Costa Rica (ro) f Russian: Коста-Ри́ка (ru) f (Kosta-Ríka) Sardinian: Costa Rica f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Коста̀рика f Roman: Kostàrika (sh) f Sinhalese: කෝස්ට රිකා (kōsṭa rikā) Slovak: Kostarika f Slovene: Kostarika (sl) f Spanish: Costa Rica (es) f Swahili: Kostarika (sw) Swedish: Costa Rica (sv) n Tagalog: Kosta Rika Tajik: Коста Рика (Kosta Rika) Tamil: கோஸ்ட்டா ரிக்கா (kōsṭṭā rikkā) Tatar: Коста-Рика (Qosta-Rika) Telugu: కోస్టారీకా (te) (kōsṭārīkā) Thai: คอสตาริกา (th) (kɔ́s-dtaa-rí-gâa) Tibetan: ཁོ་ས་ཏ་རི་ཁ (kho sa ta ri kha) Turkish: Kosta Rika (tr) Turkmen: Kosta-Rika Ukrainian: Коста-Ри́ка (uk) f (Kosta-Rýka) Urdu: کوسٹاریکا‎ m (kosṭā rikā) Uyghur: كوستارىكا‎ (kostarika) Uzbek: Kosta-Rika f Vietnamese: Cốt-xta Ri-ca West Frisian: Kosta Rika n Yiddish: קאָסטאַ ריקאַ‎ (kosta rika) Yoruba: Kuusita Ríkà

See also

• (countries of Central America) country of Central America; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

Anagrams

• acroatics

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kostaˈɾika/, [kos̪.t̪aˈɾi.ka]

Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

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Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Costa Rica.

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Alternative forms

• Kosta Rika

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔs.təˈri.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔs.taˈri.ka/

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Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• costa-riqueny

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

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Danish

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Costa Rica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔs.taː ˈri.kaː/

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Proper noun

Costa Rica n

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• Costa Ricaan

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Finnish

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Declension

Inflection of Costa Rica (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		Costa Rica	—
genitive		Costa Rican	—
partitive		Costa Ricaa	—
illative		Costa Ricaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Costa Rica	—
accusative	nom.	Costa Rica	—
	gen.	Costa Rican
genitive		Costa Rican	—
partitive		Costa Ricaa	—
inessive		Costa Ricassa	—
elative		Costa Ricasta	—
illative		Costa Ricaan	—
adessive		Costa Ricalla	—
ablative		Costa Ricalta	—
allative		Costa Ricalle	—
essive		Costa Ricana	—
translative		Costa Ricaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Costa Ricatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Costa Rica (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Costa Ricani	Costa Ricamme
2nd person	Costa Ricasi	Costa Ricanne
3rd person	Costa Ricansa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔs.ta ʁi.ka/

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Proper noun

Costa Rica m

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

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Galician

Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• costarriqueño

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Costa Rica n (proper noun, genitive Costa Ricas or (optionally with an article) Costa Rica)

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Declension

Declension of Costa Rica [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Costa Rica
genitive	des	Costa Ricas, Costa Rica1
dative	dem	Costa Rica
accusative	das	Costa Rica

¹Optionally with an article.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkostɒrikɒ]
• Hyphenation: Cos‧ta Ri‧ca
• Rhymes: -kɒ

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Costa Rica	—
accusative	Costa Ricát	—
dative	Costa Ricának	—
instrumental	Costa Ricával	—
causal-final	Costa Ricáért	—
translative	Costa Ricává	—
terminative	Costa Ricáig	—
essive-formal	Costa Ricaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Costa Ricában	—
superessive	Costa Ricán	—
adessive	Costa Ricánál	—
illative	Costa Ricába	—
sublative	Costa Ricára	—
allative	Costa Ricához	—
elative	Costa Ricából	—
delative	Costa Ricáról	—
ablative	Costa Ricától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Costa Ricáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Costa Ricáéi	—

Possessive forms of Costa Rica
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Costa Ricám	—
2nd person sing.	Costa Ricád	—
3rd person sing.	Costa Ricája	—
1st person plural	Costa Ricánk	—
2nd person plural	Costa Ricátok	—
3rd person plural	Costa Ricájuk	—

Derived terms

• Costa Rica-i

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Costa Rica.

Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• costaricano

Anagrams

• accorasti, cascatori, raccostai, riaccosta, ricascato, scaricato, scorciata, socratica, stracocia

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Livonian

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. (geography) Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

   San José um Costa Rica pǟjālgab — San José is Coasta Rica's capital

Declension

Declension of Costa Rica

	singular (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv)	Costa Rica	–
genitive (genitīv)	Costa Rica	–
partitive (partitīv)	Costa Rica	–
dative (datīv)	Costa Rican	–
instrumental (instrumentāl)	Costa Ricaks	–
illative (illatīv)	Costa Ricaz Costa Rica	–
inessive (inesīv)	Costa Ricas	–
elative (elatīv)	Costa Ricast	–

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• costaricaner
• costaricansk
• kostarikaner
• kostarikansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• costarican, costaricanar
• costaricansk
• kostarikan, kostarikanar
• kostarikansk

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.tɐ ˈʁi.kɐ/ [ˈkɔs.tɐ ˈhi.kɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.tɐ ˈʁi.kɐ/ [ˈkɔs.tɐ ˈhi.kɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔʃ.tɐ ˈʁi.kɐ/ [ˈkɔʃ.tɐ ˈχi.kɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.ta ˈʁi.ka/ [ˈkɔs.ta ˈhi.ka]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔʃ.tɐ ˈʁi.kɐ/

Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• costa-ricense
• costa-riquenho
• costa-riquense

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkosta ˈrika/ [ˌkos.t̪a ˈri.ka]

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• Syllabification: Cos‧ta Ri‧ca

Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)

   Synonym: (Costa Rica, colloquial) Ticolandia

Derived terms

• costarricense
• costarriqueño

See also

• tico

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Swedish

Proper noun

Costa Rica n (genitive Costa Ricas)

1. Costa Rica (a country in Central America)