Guatemala

Guatemala

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Guatemala (originally the name of Iximche, the location of Guatemala's first capital), from Classical Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān, from cuauhtēmalli (“woodpile”) + -tlān (“place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌɡwɑː.təˈmɑː.lə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Guatemala

1. A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Guatemala.
2. A department of Guatemala.

Derived terms

• Guatemalan

Related terms

• Guatemala City

Translations

country in Central America

Afrikaans: Guatemala Albanian: Guatemalë f, Guatemala (sq) f (definite) Amharic: ጓቴማላ (gʷatemala) Arabic: غْوَاتِيمَالَا‎ f (ḡwātimālā), جْوَاتِيمَالَا‎ f (gwātimālā) Armenian: Գվատեմալա (hy) (Gvatemala) Asturian: Guatemala (ast) Azerbaijani: Qvatemala (az) Belarusian: Гватэма́ла f (Hvatemála) Bengali: গুয়াতেমালা (bn) (guyatemala) Breton: Guatemala Bulgarian: Гватема́ла f (Gvatemála) Burmese: ဂွါတီမာလာ (gwatimala) Catalan: Guatemala (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 危地馬拉／危地马拉 (zh) (Wēidìmǎlā) Czech: Guatemala (cs) f Danish: Guatemala (da) n Dhivehi: ގުއަޓެމާލާ‎ (dv) (guaṭemālā) Dutch: Guatemala (nl) n Esperanto: Gvatemalo (eo) Estonian: Guatemala (et) Finnish: Guatemala (fi) French: Guatemala (fr) m Galician: Guatemala (gl) Georgian: გვატემალა (gvaṭemala) German: Guatemala (de) n Greek: Γουατεμάλα (el) f (Gouatemála) Hebrew: גּוּאָטֶמָלָה‎ f (gvatemála) Hindi: ग्वाटेमाला (hi) m (gvāṭemālā) Hungarian: Guatemala (hu) Icelandic: Gvatemala (is) n Indonesian: Guatemala (id) Interlingua: Guatemala Irish: Guatamala m Italian: Guatemala m Japanese: グアテマラ (ja) (Guatemara) Kalenjin: Gwatemala, Gwatemala Kamba: Gwatemala Kazakh: Гватемала (Gvatemala) Khmer: ក្វាតេម៉ាឡា (km) (kvaateemaalaa) Kikuyu: Gwatemala Korean: 과테말라 (ko) (Gwatemalla) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Guatemala (ku) Kyrgyz: Гватемала (ky) (Gvatemala) Lao: ກົວເຕມາລາ (kūa tē mā lā) Latin: Guatimala f Latvian: Gvatemala (lv) f Lithuanian: Gvatemala (lt) f Luhya: Gwatemala Luo: Gwatemala Macedonian: Гватема́ла f (Gvatemála) Malay: Guatemala Maori: Kuatemara Meru: Gwatemala Mongolian: Cyrillic: Гватемал (Gvatemal) Nahuatl: Cuauhtēmallān Norman: Guatemala Norwegian: Bokmål: Guatemala (no) n Nynorsk: Guatemala (nn) n Occitan: Guatemala (oc) m Oromo: Gu'aatimaalaa Pashto: ګواتېمالا‎ f (gwātemālā) Persian: گواتمالا‎ (gvâtemâlâ) Pipil: Kwajtemalan Polish: Gwatemala (pl) f Portuguese: Guatemala (pt) Romanian: Guatemala (ro) f Russian: Гватема́ла (ru) f (Gvatɛmála) Rusyn: Ґуатема́ла f (Guatemála) S'gaw Karen: Gwatemala (Gwatemala) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Гватема́ла f Roman: Gvatemála (sh) f Sinhalese: ගුවාතමාලාව (guwātamālāwa) Slovak: Guatemala f Slovene: Gvatemala (sl) f Spanish: Guatemala (es) f Swahili: Guatemala (sw) Swedish: Guatemala (sv) n Tagalog: Guwatemala Tajik: Гватемала (tg) (Gvatemala) Tatar: Гватемала (Gwatemala) Thai: กัวเตมาลา (th) (guua-dtee-maa-laa) Tibetan: གུ་ཝེ་ཐི་མ་ལ (gu we thi ma la) Turkish: Guatemala (tr) Turkmen: Gwatemala Tz'utujil: Ixiimuleew Ukrainian: Гватема́ла (uk) f (Hvatemála), Ґватема́ла f (Gvatemála) Urdu: گواتیمالا‎ m (gvātemālā) Uyghur: گۋاتېمالا‎ (gwatëmala) Uzbek: Gvatemala (uz) Vietnamese: Goa-tê-ma-la Volapük: Gvatemän (vo) West Frisian: Gûatemala n Yiddish: גואַטעמאַלאַ‎ (guatemala) Yoruba: Guatemala Yucatec Maya: Kuhatemalha’

See also

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

Anagrams

• malagueta

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwateˈmala/, [ɡwa.t̪eˈma.la]

Proper noun

Guatemala f

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

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Breton

Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ɡwə.təˈma.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ɡwa.teˈma.la/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Guatemala f

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)
2. Guatemala City (the capital city of Guatemala)
3. Guatemala (a department of Guatemala)

Derived terms

• guatemalenc, guatemalenca

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

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Czech

Proper noun

Guatemala f

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• guatemalský
• Guatemalec

Further reading

• Guatemala in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Guatemala in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• audio

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Proper noun

Guatemala n

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish Guatemala.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɑtemɑ(ː)lɑ/, [ˈɡuɑt̪e̞ˌmɑ(ː)lɑ]
• Rhymes: -emɑlɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Gu‧a‧te‧ma‧la

Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)
2. Guatemala City (the capital city of Guatemala)

Declension

Inflection of Guatemala (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		Guatemala	—
genitive		Guatemalan	—
partitive		Guatemalaa	—
illative		Guatemalaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Guatemala	—
accusative	nom.	Guatemala	—
	gen.	Guatemalan
genitive		Guatemalan	—
partitive		Guatemalaa	—
inessive		Guatemalassa	—
elative		Guatemalasta	—
illative		Guatemalaan	—
adessive		Guatemalalla	—
ablative		Guatemalalta	—
allative		Guatemalalle	—
essive		Guatemalana	—
translative		Guatemalaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Guatemalatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Guatemala (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Guatemalani	Guatemalamme
2nd person	Guatemalasi	Guatemalanne
3rd person	Guatemalansa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwa.te.ma.la/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Guatemala m

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Guatemala n (proper noun, genitive Guatemalas or (optionally with an article) Guatemala)

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• Guatemalteke
• guatemaltekisch

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡvɒtɛmɒlɒ]
• Hyphenation: Gua‧te‧ma‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Guatemala	—
accusative	Guatemalát	—
dative	Guatemalának	—
instrumental	Guatemalával	—
causal-final	Guatemaláért	—
translative	Guatemalává	—
terminative	Guatemaláig	—
essive-formal	Guatemalaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Guatemalában	—
superessive	Guatemalán	—
adessive	Guatemalánál	—
illative	Guatemalába	—
sublative	Guatemalára	—
allative	Guatemalához	—
elative	Guatemalából	—
delative	Guatemaláról	—
ablative	Guatemalától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Guatemaláé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Guatemaláéi	—

Possessive forms of Guatemala
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Guatemalám	—
2nd person sing.	Guatemalád	—
3rd person sing.	Guatemalája	—
1st person plural	Guatemalánk	—
2nd person plural	Guatemalátok	—
3rd person plural	Guatemalájuk	—

Derived terms

• guatemalai
• Guatemalaváros

See also

• Guatemalai Köztársaság

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwa.teˈma.la/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: Gua‧te‧mà‧la

Proper noun

Guatemala m

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• guatemalteco

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Guatimala, Guatimalia

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Guatemala, from Classical Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡʷaː.teːˈmaː.la/, [ɡʷäːt̪eːˈmäːɫ̪ä] or IPA^(key): /ɡʷaˈte.ma.la/, [ɡʷäˈt̪ɛmäɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡwa.teˈma.la/, [ɡwät̪eˈmäːlä] or IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈte.ma.la/, [ɡwäˈt̪ɛːmälä]
• Note: the former corresponds more closely to Spanish, the latter is the scansion in Rafael Landívar's Rusticatio Mexicana.[1]

Proper noun

Guā̆tē̆mā̆la f sg (genitive Guā̆tē̆mā̆lae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Guā̆tē̆mā̆la
Genitive	Guā̆tē̆mā̆lae
Dative	Guā̆tē̆mā̆lae
Accusative	Guā̆tē̆mā̆lam
Ablative	Guā̆tē̆mā̆lā
Vocative	Guā̆tē̆mā̆la
Locative	Guā̆tē̆mā̆lae

References

1. Landívar, Rafael. Rusticatio Mexicana. Urbi Guatimalae, 1. Bologna, 1782

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• guatemalaner
• guatemalansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• guatemalan, guatemalanar
• guatemalansk

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Guatemala, from Nahuatl cuauhtēmallān (“place of many trees”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwa.teˈma.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwa.teˈma.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwa.teˈma.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡwɐ.tɨˈma.lɐ/

• Rhymes: -alɐ
• Hyphenation: Gua‧te‧ma‧la

Proper noun

Guatemala f

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• Cidade de Guatemala
• guatemalense

Related terms

• guatemalteco

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwa.teˈma.la/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Guatemala f

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• guatemalez, guatemaleză

Further reading

• Guatemala in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān, from cuauhtēmalli (“woodpile”) + -tlān (“place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwateˈmala/ [ɡwa.t̪eˈma.la]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: Gua‧te‧ma‧la

Proper noun

Guatemala f

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)
2. Guatemala City (the capital city of Guatemala)

   Synonyms: (clipping) Guate, Ciudad de Guatemala

3. Guatemala (a department of Guatemala)

Derived terms

• de Guatemala a Guatepeor
• guatemalense
• salir de Guatemala y meterse en Guatepeor

Related terms

• guatemalteco

See also

• chapín

Anagrams

• malagueta

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

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Swedish

Proper noun

Guatemala n (genitive Guatemalas)

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• guatemalan
• guatemalansk

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Turkish

Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)

Declension

declension of Guatemala

	singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz)
nominative (yalın)	Guatemala
accusative (belirtme)	Guatemala'yı
dative (yönelme)	Guatemala'ya
locative (bulunma)	Guatemala'da
ablative (çıkma)	Guatemala'dan
genitive (tamlayan)	Guatemala'nın

    possessive of Guatemala

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Guatemala'm	Guatemalalarım / Guatemala'larım
senin (your)	Guatemala'n	Guatemalaların / Guatemala'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Guatemala'sı	Guatemalaları / Guatemala'ları
bizim (our)	Guatemala'mız	Guatemalalarımız / Guatemala'larımız
sizin (your)	Guatemala'nız	Guatemalalarınız / Guatemala'larınız
onların (their)	Guatemala'sı / Guatemalaları / Guatemala'ları	Guatemalaları / Guatemala'ları

See also

• (countries of Central America) Orta Amerika ülkesi; Belize, Kosta Rika, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nikaragua, Panama

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Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Guatemala

1. Guatemala (a country in Central America)