Guadalcanal

English

Etymology

Spanish. Named in 1568 by Álvaro de Mendaña, after his hometown of Guadalcanal, Spain. From Arabic وَادِي الْخَانَات‎ (wādī l-ḵānāt, “Valley of the Stalls”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɡwɑː.dəl.kəˈnɑːl/

Proper noun

Guadalcanal

A town in Andalusia, Spain.
A volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands.
1. A battle in World War II in which American forces recaptured it from the Japanese.

Translations

Pacific island

Arabic: جُوَادَالْكَانَال‎ m (guwadalkanāl)
Bulgarian: Гуадалканал m (Guadalkanal)
Catalan: Guadalcanal m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 瓜達爾卡納爾島／瓜达尔卡纳尔岛 (Guādá'ěrkǎnà'ěr dǎo)
Czech: Guadalcanal m
Danish: Guadalcanal c
Dutch: Guadalcanal (nl) m
Finnish: Guadalcanal (fi)
French: Guadalcanal (fr) m
German: Guadalcanal m
Hebrew: גוודלקנל‎ m
Italian: Guadalcanal
Japanese: ガダルカナル島 (Gadarukanaru-tō), ガ島 (Ga-tō)
Korean: 과달카날 섬 (gwadalkanal seom)
Macedonian: Гвадалка́нал m (Gvadalkánal)
Norwegian: Guadalcanal
Polish: Guadalcanal m
Portuguese: Guadalcanal f
Russian: Гуадалканал m (Guadalkanal)
Spanish: Guadalcanal m
Swedish: Guadalcanal c

Czech

Proper noun

Guadalcanal m

Guadalcanal

Portuguese

Proper noun

Guadalcanal f

Guadalcanal (a village in Andalusia, Spain)
Guadalcanal (an island and province of the Solomon Islands)

Spanish

Proper noun

Guadalcanal ?

Guadalcanal (Pacific island)