Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

English

Etymology

Calque of Spanish República Dominicana, in honor of Santo Domingo, which could refer to a Sunday, Jesus, or St Dominic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɒmˌɪn.ɪ.kən ɹɪˈpʌb.lɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊˌmɪn.ɪ.kən ɹəˈpʌb.lɪk/

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Proper noun

Dominican Republic

1. A country in the Caribbean.

Derived terms

• Dominican Republican

Translations

country in the Caribbean

Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة اَلدُّومِنِيكَان‎ f (jumhuriyya d-duminikān) Armenian: Դոմինիկյան Հանրապետություն (hy) (Dominikyan Hanrapetutʿyun) Belarusian: Дамініка́нская Рэспу́бліка f (Daminikánskaja Respúblika) Bengali: ডোমিনিকান প্রজাতন্ত্র (bn) (ḍominikan prôjatôntrô) Breton: Republik Dominikan Bulgarian: Доминика́нска репу́блика f (Dominikánska repúblika) Burmese: ဒိုမီနီကန်သမ္မတ (duiminikansamma.ta.) Catalan: República Dominicana (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 多米尼加共和國／多米尼加共和国 (zh) (Duōmǐníjiā gònghéguó) Czech: Dominikánská republika (cs) f Danish: Dominikanske Republik Dutch: Dominicaanse Republiek (nl) f Esperanto: Domingo (eo) Estonian: Dominikaani Vabariik Faroese: Dominikalýðveldið n Finnish: Dominikaaninen tasavalta (fi) French: République dominicaine (fr) Galician: República Dominicana (gl) f Georgian: დომინიკელთა რესპუბლიკა (dominiḳelta resṗubliḳa) German: Dominikanische Republik (de) f Greek: Δομινικανή Δημοκρατία (el) f (Dominikaní Dimokratía) Hebrew: הרפובליקה הדומיניקנית‎ f (ha-republika ha-dominikanit) Hindi: दोमिनिकन गणराज्य (dominikan gaṇrājya) Hungarian: Dominikai Köztársaság (hu) Icelandic: Dóminíska lýðveldið (is) Interlingua: Republica Dominican Italian: Repubblica dominicana, (a correct translation) Repubblica Dominicana (it) f Japanese: ドミニカ共和国 (ja) (Dominika kyōwakoku) Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋដូមីនីក (km) (saathiərĕəʼnaʼrŏət doumiiniik) Korean: 도미니카 공화국 (ko) (Dominika gonghwaguk), 도미니까 공화국 (ko) (Dominikka gonghwaguk) (North Korea) Latvian: Dominikāna f, Dominikānas Republika f Lithuanian: Dominikos Respublika (lt) f Macedonian: Доминика́нска Република (mk) f (Dominikánska Republika) Maltese: ir-Repubblika Dominikana f Navajo: Domingo bikéyah Norman: Républyique Dominnicaine f Norwegian: Den dominikanske republikk Occitan: Republica Dominicana (oc) f Persian: جمهوری دومینیکن‎ (jomhuri-ye dominikan) Polish: Dominikana (pl) Portuguese: República Dominicana (pt) Romanian: Republica Dominicană (ro) f Russian: Доминика́нская Респу́блика (ru) f (Dominikánskaja Respúblika) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Доминиканска Република f Roman: Dominikanska Republika (sh) f Sicilian: Ripùbbrica Duminicana f Slovak: Dominikánska republika f Spanish: República Dominicana (es) Swahili: Jamhuri ya Dominika (sw) Swedish: Dominikanska republiken (sv) Thai: สาธารณรัฐโดมินิกัน (th) (sǎa-taa-rá-ná-rát doo-mí-ní-gan) Tibetan: ཌོ་མི་ནི་ཀན་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ (ḍo mi ni kan spyi mthun rgyal khab) Turkish: Dominik Cumhuriyeti (tr) Ukrainian: Домініка́нська Респу́бліка (uk) f (Dominikánsʹka Respúblika) Vietnamese: Cộng hoà Đô-mi-ni-ca-na, Đô-mi-ni-ca-na, Cộng hòa Dominica Volapük: Sandominän (vo) Yoruba: Dòmíníkánì

See also

• Santo Domingo
• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States