Aruba

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /əˈɹuː.bə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːbə

Proper noun

Aruba

  1. An island, a dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea.

Derived terms

Translations

See also
  • Appendix:Countries of the world

Further reading

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Uncertain. Proposed etymologies include a derivation from Spanish oro (“gold”) and the third-person singular preterite form of haber (“to have”) ("there was gold"), a derivation from Island Carib oruba (“well-placed”) or a compound of two Island Carib words, ora (“shell”) and oubao (“island”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /aːˈru.baː/, /aːˈry.baː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: Aru‧ba

Proper noun

Aruba n

  1. Aruba (an island, a dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Derived terms
  • Arubaans

Latin

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Arūba f sg (genitive Arūbae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Aruba (an island, a dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Arūba
Genitive Arūbae
Dative Arūbae
Accusative Arūbam
Ablative Arūbā
Vocative Arūba
Locative Arūbae

Norman

Proper noun

Aruba

  1. (Jersey) Aruba (an island, a dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɑɾʉːbɑ/

Proper noun

Aruba

  1. Aruba (an island, a dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Aruba

  1. Aruba (an island, a dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Arawak Taíno ora (“shell”) + oubao (“island”).

Proper noun

Aruba

  1. Aruba (an island, a dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈɾu.bɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈɾu.ba/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐˈɾu.bɐ/ [ɐˈɾu.βɐ]

Proper noun

Aruba f

  1. Aruba (an island, a dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Aruba f (Cyrillic spelling Аруба)

  1. Aruba (an island, a dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /aˈɾuba/ [aˈɾu.β̞a]
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -uba
  • Syllabification: A‧ru‧ba

Proper noun

Aruba f

  1. Aruba (an island, a dependent territory and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Derived terms

Swedish

Proper noun

Aruba n (genitive Arubas)

  1. Aruba (a dependent territory of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)
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