Nicaragua

Nicaragua

See also: Nicarágua

English

Etymology

Said to be from personal name Nicarao. Possibly from Pipil variant of Classical Nahuatl nican (“here”) + Pipil ahuat (“oak”), thus nicar-ahuat (oak place). Quercus cortesii grows in Nicaragua.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌnɪk.əɹˈæɡ.ju.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌnɪk.əˈɹɑ.ɡwə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Nicaragua

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

Related terms

• Nicaraguan
• Nicaragua wood

Translations

a country in Central America

Abkhaz: Никарагуа (Nikʼaragwa) Afrikaans: Nicaragua Albanian: Nikaraguaja f Amharic: ኒካራጓ (nikaragʷa) Arabic: نِيكَارَاجُوَا‎ f (nīkārāguwā), نِيكَارَاغُوَا‎ f (nīkārāḡuwā) Armenian: Նիկարագուա (Nikaragua) Azerbaijani: Nikaraqua (az) Bashkir: Никарагуа (Nikaragua) Basque: Nikaragua (eu) Belarusian: Нікара́гуа f (Nikaráhua) Bengali: নিকারাগুয়া (bn) (nikaraguya) Breton: Nicaragua Bulgarian: Никара́гуа f (Nikarágua) Burmese: နီကာရာဂွါ (nikaragwa) Catalan: Nicaragua (ca) f Chechen: Никарагуа (Nikaragwa) Chinese: Mandarin: 尼加拉瓜 (zh) (Níjiālāguā) Czech: Nikaragua (cs) f Danish: Nicaragua (da) n Dhivehi: ނިކަރާގުއާ‎ (nikarāguā) Dutch: Nicaragua (nl) n Esperanto: Nikaragvo (eo) Estonian: Nicaragua (et) Finnish: Nicaragua (fi) French: Nicaragua (fr) m Georgian: ნიკარაგუა (niḳaragua) German: Nicaragua (de) n Greek: Νικαράγουα (el) f (Nikarágoua) Hebrew: נִיקָרָגוּאָה‎ f (nikaragua) Hindi: निकारागुआ (hi) m (nikārāguā) Hungarian: Nicaragua (hu) Icelandic: Níkaragva (is) n, Nikaragúa (is) n Indonesian: Nikaragua (id) Interlingua: Nicaragua Italian: Nicaragua (it) f Japanese: ニカラグア (ja) (Nikaragua) Kalenjin: Nikaragwa Kamba: Nikaragwa Kazakh: Никарагуа (Nikaragua) Khmer: នីការ៉ាហ្គ័រ (niikaaraagɔə) Kikuyu: Nikaragwa Korean: 니카라과 (ko) (Nikaragwa) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Nîkaragua (ku) Kyrgyz: Никарагуа (Nikaragua) Lao: ນີກາຣາກົວ (nī kā rā kūa) Latvian: Nikaragva (lv) f Lithuanian: Nikaragva (lt) f Luhya: Nikaragwa Luo: Nikaragwa Macedonian: Никара́гва (mk) f (Nikarágva) Malay: Nicaragua Maori: Nikarāhua Meru: Nikaragwa Mongolian: Cyrillic: Никарагуа (Nikaragua) Norman: Nicaragua Norwegian: Bokmål: Nicaragua n Nynorsk: Nicaragua (nn) n Pashto: نیکاراگوا‎ f (nīkārāgwā) Persian: نیکاراگوئه‎ (nikârâgu'e) Polish: Nikaragua (pl) f Portuguese: Nicarágua (pt) f Romanian: Nicaragua (ro) f Russian: Никара́гуа (ru) f (Nikarágua) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Никара̀гва f Roman: Nikaràgva (sh) f Sinhalese: නිකරගුවා (nikaraguwā) Slovak: Nikaragua f Slovene: Nikaragva (sl) f Spanish: Nicaragua (es) f Swahili: Nikaragwa (sw) Swedish: Nicaragua (sv) n Tagalog: Nikaragwa Tajik: Никарагуа (Nikaragua) Tatar: Никарагуа (Nikarağua) Thai: นิการากัว (th) (ní-gaa-raa-guua) Tibetan: ནི་ཀ་ར་གུ་ཝ (ni ka ra gu wa) Tigrinya: ኒካራጓ (nikaragʷa) Turkish: Nikaragua (tr) Turkmen: Nikaragua Ukrainian: Нікара́гуа (uk) f (Nikaráhua) Urdu: نکاراگوا‎ m (nikārāguā) Uyghur: نىكاراگۇئا‎ (nikaragu'a) Uzbek: Nikaragua (uz) Vietnamese: Ni-ca-ra-goa Welsh: Nicaragwa Yiddish: ניקאַראַגואַ‎ (nikaragua) Yoruba: Nikarágúà

See also

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

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Asturian

Proper noun

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• nicaraguanu

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ni.kəˈɾa.ɡwə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ni.kaˈɾa.ɡwa/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Nicaragua f

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• nicaragüenc

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Nicaragua ? n

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish Nicaragua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnikɑrɑɡuɑ/, [ˈnikɑˌrɑɡuɑ]

Proper noun

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Declension

Inflection of Nicaragua (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Nicaragua	—
genitive		Nicaraguan	—
partitive		Nicaraguaa	—
illative		Nicaraguaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Nicaragua	—
accusative	nom.	Nicaragua	—
	gen.	Nicaraguan
genitive		Nicaraguan	—
partitive		Nicaraguaa	—
inessive		Nicaraguassa	—
elative		Nicaraguasta	—
illative		Nicaraguaan	—
adessive		Nicaragualla	—
ablative		Nicaragualta	—
allative		Nicaragualle	—
essive		Nicaraguana	—
translative		Nicaraguaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Nicaraguatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Nicaragua (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Nicaraguani	Nicaraguamme
2nd person	Nicaraguasi	Nicaraguanne
3rd person	Nicaraguansa

Derived terms

• nicaragualainen

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German

Alternative forms

• Nikaragua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nikaˈʁaːɡua/

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Proper noun

Nicaragua n (proper noun, genitive Nicaraguas or (optionally with an article) Nicaragua)

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• Nicaraguaner
• nicaraguanisch
• Nicaraguasee

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnikɒrɒɡuɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ca‧ra‧gua
• Rhymes: -ɒ

Proper noun

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Nicaragua	—
accusative	Nicaraguát	—
dative	Nicaraguának	—
instrumental	Nicaraguával	—
causal-final	Nicaraguáért	—
translative	Nicaraguává	—
terminative	Nicaraguáig	—
essive-formal	Nicaraguaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Nicaraguában	—
superessive	Nicaraguán	—
adessive	Nicaraguánál	—
illative	Nicaraguába	—
sublative	Nicaraguára	—
allative	Nicaraguához	—
elative	Nicaraguából	—
delative	Nicaraguáról	—
ablative	Nicaraguától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Nicaraguáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Nicaraguáéi	—

Possessive forms of Nicaragua
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Nicaraguám	—
2nd person sing.	Nicaraguád	—
3rd person sing.	Nicaraguája	—
1st person plural	Nicaraguánk	—
2nd person plural	Nicaraguátok	—
3rd person plural	Nicaraguájuk	—

Derived terms

• nicaraguai

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.kaˈra.ɡwa/
• Rhymes: -aɡwa
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ca‧rà‧gua

Proper noun

Nicaragua f

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• nicaraguense

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ni.kaˈra.ɡu.a/, [nɪkäˈräɡuä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ni.kaˈra.ɡu.a/, [nikäˈräːɡuä]

Proper noun

Nicaragua f sg (genitive Nicaraguae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Nicaragua
Genitive	Nicaraguae
Dative	Nicaraguae
Accusative	Nicaraguam
Ablative	Nicaraguā
Vocative	Nicaragua

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• nicaraguaner
• nicaraguansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• nicaraguan, nicaraguanar
• nicaraguansk

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Spanish

Etymology

Unknown. One theory is that it was coined by Spanish colonists based upon the name of the local chief at that time, Classical Nahuatl Nicarao (“Nicarao”) + agua (“water”). Another is that it may have meant ‘surrounded by water’ in an indigenous language. (This could either be a reference to its two large freshwater lakes, Lake Nicaragua and Lake Managua, or to the fact that it bounded on the east and the west by oceans.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nikaˈɾaɡwa/ [ni.kaˈɾa.ɣ̞wa]

• Audio (Mexico)

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• Rhymes: -aɡwa
• Syllabification: Ni‧ca‧ra‧gua

Proper noun

Nicaragua f

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• nica
• nicaragüense
• nicaragüeño

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Swedish

Proper noun

Nicaragua n (genitive Nicaraguas)

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• nicaraguan
• nicaraguansk
• nicaraguanska