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.
Related terms
Translations
a country in Central America
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See also
- Managua
- (countries of Central America) country of Central America; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
Catalan
Pronunciation
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnikɑrɑɡuɑ/, [ˈnikɑˌrɑɡuɑ]
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 | |
German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nikaˈʁaːɡua/
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Nicaragua n (proper noun, genitive Nicaraguas or (optionally with an article) Nicaragua)
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈnikɒrɒɡuɒ]
- Hyphenation: Ni‧ca‧ra‧gua
- Rhymes: -ɒ
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 | — |
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ni.kaˈra.ɡwa/
- Rhymes: -aɡwa
- Hyphenation: Ni‧ca‧rà‧gua
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
- (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 |
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
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) (file) - Rhymes: -aɡwa
- Syllabification: Ni‧ca‧ra‧gua
Swedish
Derived terms
- nicaraguan
- nicaraguansk
- nicaraguanska
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