Uruguay

Uruguay

English

Etymology

Disputed, either:

• Guaraní uruá, y (literally “water snail”), from uruá (“apple snail”) +‎ y (“water”); or
• Guaraní uru (quail), gua, y (literally “quail living by the river”) from uru (“quail”) +‎ gua (“from”) +‎ y (“water”).

Quail are upland birds, so Snail River is the likely explanation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊə.ɹə.ɡwaɪ/, /ˈʊɹ.ə.ɡweɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊɹ.ə.ɡwaɪ/, /ˈʊɹ.ə.ɡweɪ/

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Proper noun

Uruguay

1. A country in South America. Official name: Oriental Republic of Uruguay.

Derived terms

• Uruguayan

Translations

country

Abkhaz: Уругәаи (Urugʷaj) Afrikaans: Uruguay Albanian: Uruguaji m, Uruguai (sq) m (indefinite) Amharic: ኡራጓይ (ʾuragʷay) Arabic: أُورُوغُوَاي‎ f (ʾūrūḡuwāy), أُورُوجُوَاي‎ (ar) f (ʾūrūguwāy) Hijazi Arabic: أوروقواي‎ f (ʾūrūgwāy) Armenian: Ուրուգվայ (Urugvay) Asturian: Uruguay (ast) Azerbaijani: Uruqvay (az) Basque: Uruguai Belarusian: Уругва́й m (Uruhváj) Bengali: উরুগুয়ে (bn) (uruguye) Breton: Uruguay Bulgarian: Уругва́й m (Urugváj) Burmese: ဥရုဂွေး (u.ru.gwe:) Catalan: Uruguai (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 烏拉圭／乌拉圭 (zh) (Wūlāguī) Czech: Uruguay (cs) Danish: Uruguay (da) Dhivehi: އުރުގުއ‎ (urugu) Dutch: Uruguay (nl) Esperanto: Urugvajo (eo) Estonian: Uruguay (et) Finnish: Uruguay (fi) French: Uruguay (fr) m Galician: Uruguai (gl) m Georgian: ურუგვაი (urugvai) German: Uruguay (de) n Greek: Ουρουγουάη (el) f (Ourougouái) Guaraní: Uruguái Gujarati: ઉરુગ્વે (urugve) Hebrew: אורוגוואי‎ m (urugvay) Hindi: उरुग्वे (hi) (urugve) Hungarian: Uruguay (hu) Icelandic: Úrúgvæ (is) n Indonesian: Uruguay (id) Interlingua: Uruguay Irish: Uragua m Italian: Uruguay (it) m Japanese: ウルグアイ (ja) (Uruguai) Kalenjin: Urugwai Kamba: Urugwai Kannada: ಉರುಗ್ವೆ (kn) (urugve) Kazakh: Уругвай (Urugvai) Khmer: អ៊ុយរូហ្គាយ (ʼuyruugiəy) Kikuyu: Urugwai Korean: 우루과이 (ko) (Urugwai) Kyrgyz: Уругвай (ky) (Urugvay) Lao: ອູຣູກວາຍ (ʼū rūk wāi) Latin: Uraquaria f Latvian: Urugvaja (lv) f Lithuanian: Urugvajus (lt) m Luhya: Urugwai Luo: Urugwai Macedonian: Уругвај m (Urugvaj) Malay: Uruguay Malayalam: ഉറുഗ്വേ (uṟugvē) Maltese: l-Urugwaj Maori: Urukuai Marathi: उरुग्वे (urugve) Meru: Urugwai Mongolian: Уругвай (Urugvaj) Navajo: Táłtłʼááh Chʼosh Bitooh Nepali: उरुग्वे (urugve) Norman: Uruguay m Norwegian: Bokmål: Uruguay Nynorsk: Uruguay (nn) Oriya: ଉରୁଗୁଏ (urugue) Persian: اروگوئه‎ (orugu'e) Polish: Urugwaj (pl) m inan Portuguese: Uruguai (pt) m Romanian: Uruguay (ro) n Russian: Уругва́й (ru) m (Urugváj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Уругвај m Roman: Urugvaj (sh) m Sinhalese: උරුගුව (uruguwa) Slovak: Uruguaj m Slovene: Urugvaj (sl) m Spanish: Uruguay (es) m Swahili: Urugwai (sw) Swedish: Uruguay (sv) Tagalog: Urugway Tajik: Уругвай (tg) (Urugvay) Tamil: உருகுவை (urukuvai) Tatar: Уругвай (Uruğway) Telugu: ఉరుగ్వే (te) (urugvē) Thai: อุรุกวัย (th) (ù-rú-gwai) Turkish: Uruguay (tr) Turkmen: Urugwaý Ukrainian: Уругва́й (uk) m (Uruhváj) Urdu: یوراگوئے‎ (yūrāguai) Uyghur: ئۇرۇگۋاي‎ (urugway) Uzbek: Urugvay (uz) Vietnamese: U-ru-goay, 鳥河 (Điểu Hà) Volapük: Luruguyän (vo) Yakut: Уругуай (Uruguay) Yiddish: אורוגווײַ‎ (urugvay) Yoruba: Nruguayi

See also

• (countries of South America) country of South America; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈɾuɡwai/, [uˈɾu.ɣ̞wai̯]

Proper noun

Uruguay m

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

Related terms

• uruguayu

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Uruguay

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

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Central Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Uruguay.

Proper noun

Uruguay

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

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Czech

Proper noun

Uruguay

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

Related terms

• uruguayský
• Uruguayec

Further reading

• Uruguay in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Uruguay in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Uruguay n

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish Uruguay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuruɡʋɑi̯/, [ˈuruɡʋɑi̯]

Proper noun

Uruguay

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

Declension

Inflection of Uruguay (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		Uruguay	—
genitive		Uruguayn	—
partitive		Uruguayta	—
illative		Uruguayhin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Uruguay	—
accusative	nom.	Uruguay	—
	gen.	Uruguayn
genitive		Uruguayn	—
partitive		Uruguayta	—
inessive		Uruguayssa	—
elative		Uruguaysta	—
illative		Uruguayhin	—
adessive		Uruguaylla	—
ablative		Uruguaylta	—
allative		Uruguaylle	—
essive		Uruguayna	—
translative		Uruguayksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Uruguaytta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Uruguay (type rosé)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Uruguayni	Uruguaymme
2nd person	Uruguaysi	Uruguaynne
3rd person	Uruguaynsa

Derived terms

• uruguaylainen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ʁy.ɡwɛ/, /y.ʁy.ɡwe/

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Proper noun

Uruguay m

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• Uruguayen
• uruguayen

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Uruguay n (proper noun, genitive Uruguays or (optionally with an article) Uruguay)

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• Uruguayer
• uruguayisch

Further reading

• “Uruguay” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈuruɡvaːj]
• Hyphenation: Uru‧guay
• Rhymes: -aːj

Proper noun

Uruguay

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Uruguay	—
accusative	Uruguayt	—
dative	Uruguaynak	—
instrumental	Uruguayjal	—
causal-final	Uruguayért	—
translative	Uruguayjá	—
terminative	Uruguayig	—
essive-formal	Uruguayként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Uruguayban	—
superessive	Uruguayon	—
adessive	Uruguaynál	—
illative	Uruguayba	—
sublative	Uruguayra	—
allative	Uruguayhoz	—
elative	Uruguayból	—
delative	Uruguayról	—
ablative	Uruguaytól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Uruguayé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Uruguayéi	—

Possessive forms of Uruguay
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Uruguayom	—
2nd person sing.	Uruguayod	—
3rd person sing.	Uruguaya	—
1st person plural	Uruguayunk	—
2nd person plural	Uruguayotok	—
3rd person plural	Uruguayuk	—

Derived terms

• uruguayi

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Uruguay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u.ruˈɡwaj/
• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: U‧ru‧guày

Proper noun

Uruguay m

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• uruguayano / uruguaiano

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Norwegian Bokmål

Flag of Uruguay

Proper noun

Uruguay

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

Related terms

• uruguayaner
• uruguayansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Uruguay

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

Related terms

• uruguayan, uruguayanar
• uruguayansk

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Uruguay m

1. Obsolete spelling of Uruguai

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Spanish

Etymology

Disputed, either:

• Guaraní uruá, y (literally “water snail”), from uruá (“apple snail”) +‎ y (“water”); or
• Guaraní uru (quail), gua, y (literally “quail living by the river”) from uru (“quail”) +‎ gua (“from”) +‎ y (“water”).

Quail are upland birds, so Snail River is the likely explanation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uɾuˈɡwai/ [u.ɾuˈɣ̞wai̯]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: U‧ru‧guay

Proper noun

Uruguay m

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)
2. Uruguay River (a major river in South America)

Usage notes

The definite article is optional when referring to Uruguay in Spanish (i.e. el Uruguay).

Derived terms

• uruguayo / uruguaya

Related terms

• Paraguay

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Swedish

Proper noun

Uruguay n (genitive Uruguays)

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

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Turkish

Proper noun

Uruguay

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

Declension

declension of Uruguay

	singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz)
nominative (yalın)	Uruguay
accusative (belirtme)	Uruguay'ı
dative (yönelme)	Uruguay'a
locative (bulunma)	Uruguay'da
ablative (çıkma)	Uruguay'dan
genitive (tamlayan)	Uruguay'ın

    possessive of Uruguay

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Uruguay'm	Uruguaylarım / Uruguay'larım
senin (your)	Uruguay'n	Uruguayların / Uruguay'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Uruguay'sı	Uruguayları / Uruguay'ları
bizim (our)	Uruguay'mız	Uruguaylarımız / Uruguay'larımız
sizin (your)	Uruguay'nız	Uruguaylarınız / Uruguay'larınız
onların (their)	Uruguay'sı / Uruguayları / Uruguay'ları	Uruguayları / Uruguay'ları

Derived terms

• Uruguaylı

See also

• (countries of South America) Güney Amerika ülkesi; Arjantin, Bolivya, Brezilya, Ekvador, Guyana, Kolombiya, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Şili, Uruguay, Venezuela

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Venetian

Proper noun

Uruguay

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)

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Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Uruguay

1. Uruguay (a country in South America)