Venezuela

Venezuela

English

Etymology

From Spanish Venezuela, from Italian Veneziola, diminutive of Venezia (“Venice”), after the stilt houses reminiscent of Venetian architecture.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌvɛn.ɪˈzweɪ.lə/, /ˌvɛn.ɛzˈweɪ.lə/, /ˌvɛn.əˈzweɪ.lə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Venezuela

1. A country in South America. Official name: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Derived terms

• Venezuelan

Translations

country

Abkhaz: Венесуела (Veneswela) Adyghe: Венесуэлэ (Veeneesuele) Afrikaans: Venezuela Albanian: Venezuelë f (indefinite), Venezuela (sq) f (definite) Amharic: ቬኔዝዌላ (venezwela) Arabic: فِنْزُوِيلَا‎ f (fenzuwēlā) Hijazi Arabic: ڤنزويلا‎ f (vinizwēla, vinzuwilla) Armenian: Վենեսուելա (Venesuela) Asturian: Venezuela (ast) Azerbaijani: Venesuela (az) Basque: Venezuela (eu) Belarusian: Венесуэ́ла f (Vjenjesuéla), Вэнэсуэ́ла f (Venesuéla) (Taraškievica) Bengali: ভেনেজুয়েলা (bn) (bhenejuyela) Breton: Venezuela Bulgarian: Венецуе́ла (bg) f (Venecuéla) Burmese: ဗင်နီဇွဲလား (bangnijwai:la:) Catalan: Veneçuela (ca) f Cherokee: ᏪᏁᏑᏪᎳ (wenesuwela) Chinese: Mandarin: 委內瑞拉／委内瑞拉 (zh) (Wěinèiruìlā) Corsican: Venezuela m Czech: Venezuela (cs) f Danish: Venezuela (da) n Dhivehi: ވެނެޒުއޭލާ‎ (venezuēlā) Dutch: Venezuela (nl) n Esperanto: Venezuelo (eo) Estonian: Venezuela (et) Faroese: Venesuela n Finnish: Venezuela (fi) French: Venezuela (fr) m, Vénézuéla (fr) m Galician: Venezuela (gl) f Georgian: ვენესუელა (venesuela) German: Venezuela (de) n Greek: Βενεζουέλα (el) f (Venezouéla) Hebrew: וֶנֶצוּאֶלָה‎ (he) f (venetsuéla) Hindi: वेनेज़ुएला (hi) m (venezuelā) Icelandic: Venesúela (is) f Indonesian: Venezuela (id) Interlingua: Venezuela Irish: Veiniséala f Italian: Venezuela (it) m Japanese: ベネズエラ (ja) (Benezuera), ベネスエラ (Benesuela), ヴェネズエラ (Venezuera) Kazakh: Венесуэла (Venesuela) Khmer: វេណេហ្ស៊ុយអេឡា (veineezuyʼeelaa) Korean: 베네수엘라 (ko) (Benesuella) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Venezuela (ku) Kyrgyz: Венесуэла (Venesuela) Lao: ເວເນຊູເອລາ (wē nē sū ʼē lā) Latin: Venetiola f Latvian: Venecuēla (lv) Lithuanian: Venesuela (lt) f Macedonian: Венецуе́ла (mk) f (Venecuéla) Malay: Venezuela Maltese: il-Venezwela f Manx: Venesuela f Maori: Wenehūera Mongolian: Cyrillic: Венесуэл (Venesuel) Navajo: Táłkááʼ Bighan Dineʼé bikéyah Norman: Venezuela m Norwegian: Bokmål: Venezuela n Nynorsk: Venezuela (nn) n Occitan: Veneçuèla (oc) m Pashto: ونزوېلا‎ f (wenezuelā) Persian: ونزوئلا‎ (venezuelâ) Polish: Wenezuela (pl) f Portuguese: Venezuela (pt) f Romanian: Venezuela (ro) f Russian: Венесуэ́ла (ru) f (Venesuéla) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Венезуела f, Венецуела f Roman: Venezuela (sh) f, Venecuela f Sinhalese: වෙනිසියුලාව (wenisiyulāwa) Slovak: Venezuela f Slovene: Venezuela (sl) f Spanish: Venezuela (es) f Swahili: Venezuela (sw) Swedish: Venezuela (sv) Tagalog: Beneswela (tl), Benesuwela Tajik: Венесуэла (Venesuela) Tatar: Венесуэла (Wenesuela) Thai: เวเนซุเอลา (th) (wee-nee-sú-ee-lâa) Tibetan: ཝེ་ནེ་ཟུའེ་ལ (we ne zu'e la) Tigrinya: ቬኔዝዌላ (venezwela) Turkish: Venezuela (tr) Turkmen: Wenesuela Ukrainian: Венесуе́ла (uk) f (Venesuéla) Urdu: وینیزویلا‎ m (venīzvelā), وینزویلا‎ m (venizvelā) Uyghur: ۋېنېسۇئېلا‎ (wënësu'ëla) Uzbek: Venesuela (uz) Vietnamese: Vê-nê-du-ê-la Welsh: Feneswela West Frisian: Fenezuëla Yiddish: ווענעזועלע‎ f (venezuele) Yoruba: Fẹnẹṣuẹla

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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Albanian

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. definite nominative singular of Venezuelë

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beneˈθwela/, [be.neˈθwe.la]

Proper noun

Venezuela f

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Related terms

• venezolanu

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

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Central Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Venezuela.

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

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Czech

Proper noun

Venezuela f

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Related terms

• venezuelský
• Venezuelan
• Venezuelec

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Venezuela, from Italian Veneziola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌveː.nə.zyˈeː.laː/, /ˌveː.neː.zyˈeː.laː/
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• Hyphenation: Ve‧ne‧zu‧e‧la
• Rhymes: -eːlaː

Proper noun

Venezuela n

1. Venezuela (a country in South America) [from 19th c.]
2. (historical) Venezuela (South American province of the Spanish Empire) [from 18th c.]

Derived terms

• Venezuelaan

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Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish Venezuela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋenetsuelɑ/, [ˈʋe̞ne̞t̪ˌs̠ue̞lɑ]
• Rhymes: -uelɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ve‧ne‧zu‧e‧la

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Declension

Inflection of Venezuela (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Venezuela	—
genitive		Venezuelan	—
partitive		Venezuelaa	—
illative		Venezuelaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Venezuela	—
accusative	nom.	Venezuela	—
	gen.	Venezuelan
genitive		Venezuelan	—
partitive		Venezuelaa	—
inessive		Venezuelassa	—
elative		Venezuelasta	—
illative		Venezuelaan	—
adessive		Venezuelalla	—
ablative		Venezuelalta	—
allative		Venezuelalle	—
essive		Venezuelana	—
translative		Venezuelaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Venezuelatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Venezuela (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Venezuelani	Venezuelamme
2nd person	Venezuelasi	Venezuelanne
3rd person	Venezuelansa

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French

Alternative forms

• Vénézuéla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve.ne.zɥe.la/

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Proper noun

Venezuela m

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Related terms

• vénézuélien
• Vénézuélien/Vénézuélienne
• Venise

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German

Etymology

From Spanish Venezuela, from Old Spanish Veneçuela (diminutive of Venecia (“Venice”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /venet͡suˈeːla/, /venet͡suˈʔeːla/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Ve‧ne‧zu‧e‧la

Proper noun

Venezuela n (proper noun, genitive Venezuelas or (optionally with an article) Venezuela)

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

   Synonym: Bolivarische Republik Venezuela

Derived terms

• Venezolaner
• venezolanisch

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Haitian Creole

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)
   • 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik‎:

     Anvwaye espesyal Etazini pou Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, ak vis-minis afè etranjè Larisi, Sergei Ryabkov, ap fè reyinyon nan vil Wòm ann Itali pou yo pale sou “sityasyon Venezuela kap agrave.”

     American Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams and Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov are meeting in the city of Rome, Italy to speak about "the worsening situation in Venezuela."

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛnɛzuɛlɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ve‧ne‧zu‧e‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Venezuela	—
accusative	Venezuelát	—
dative	Venezuelának	—
instrumental	Venezuelával	—
causal-final	Venezueláért	—
translative	Venezuelává	—
terminative	Venezueláig	—
essive-formal	Venezuelaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Venezuelában	—
superessive	Venezuelán	—
adessive	Venezuelánál	—
illative	Venezuelába	—
sublative	Venezuelára	—
allative	Venezuelához	—
elative	Venezuelából	—
delative	Venezueláról	—
ablative	Venezuelától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Venezueláé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Venezueláéi	—

Possessive forms of Venezuela
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Venezuelám	—
2nd person sing.	Venezuelád	—
3rd person sing.	Venezuelája	—
1st person plural	Venezuelánk	—
2nd person plural	Venezuelátok	—
3rd person plural	Venezuelájuk	—

Derived terms

• venezuelai

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve.net.t͡suˈɛ.la/, /ve.ned.d͡zuˈɛ.la/, /ve.netˈt͡swɛ.la/, /ve.nedˈd͡zwɛ.la/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: Ve‧ne‧zu‧è‧la, Ve‧ne‧zuè‧la

Proper noun

Venezuela m

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Related terms

• Venezia
• venezolano
• venezuelano

References

1. Venezuela in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Related terms

• venezuelaner
• venezuelansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Related terms

• venezuelan, venezuelanar
• venezuelansk

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ve.ne.zuˈɛ.lɐ/ [ve.ne.zʊˈɛ.lɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ve.neˈzwɛ.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ve.ne.zuˈɛ.lɐ/ [ve.ne.zʊˈɛ.lɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ve.neˈzwɛ.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ve.ne.zuˈɛ.la/ [ve.ne.zʊˈɛ.la], (faster pronunciation) /ve.neˈzwɛ.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨ.nɨˈzwɛ.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: Ve‧ne‧zu‧e‧la

Proper noun

Venezuela f

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• venezuelano

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Romanian

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Venezuela f

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvenezuela]

Proper noun

Venezuela f (genitive singular Venezuely, declension pattern of žena)

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

References

• Venezuela in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish Veneçuela (from Venecia (“Venice”) + -uela).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /beneˈθwela/ [be.neˈθwe.la]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /beneˈswela/ [be.neˈswe.la]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: Ve‧ne‧zue‧la

Proper noun

Venezuela f

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)
2. A town in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba

Related terms

• venezolanismo
• venezolano

Further reading

• “Venezuela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Proper noun

Venezuela n (genitive Venezuelas)

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Related terms

• venezuelan
• venezuelansk

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Tatar

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Declension

    declension of Venezuela

Nominative	Venezuela
Genitive	Venezuelanıñ
Dative	Venezuelaga
Accusative	Venezuelanı
Locative	Venezuelada
Ablative	Venezueladan

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Turkish

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)

Declension

declension of Venezuela

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

    possessive of Venezuela

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Venezuela'm	Venezuelalarım / Venezuela'larım
senin (your)	Venezuela'n	Venezuelaların / Venezuela'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Venezuela'sı	Venezuelaları / Venezuela'ları
bizim (our)	Venezuela'mız	Venezuelalarımız / Venezuela'larımız
sizin (your)	Venezuela'nız	Venezuelalarınız / Venezuela'larınız
onların (their)	Venezuela'sı / Venezuelaları / Venezuela'ları	Venezuelaları / Venezuela'ları

Derived terms

• Venezuelalı

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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Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Venezuela

1. Venezuela (a country in South America)