Curaçao

See also: curacao, Curacao, curaçao, and curação

English

Alternative forms

• Curacao

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, literally from curação (“cure, healing”) but probably a transcription of a Lokono endonym.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːɹəsaʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkuːɹəˈsaʊ/

Proper noun

Curaçao

1. An island in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Derived terms

• Curaçaoan

 

Related terms

• curaçao

 

Translations

Dutch island in the Caribbean

• Antillean Creole:

  Guadeloupean Creole: Kiwaso m

  Martinican Creole: Kiwaso m

• Arabic: كوراساو (kurasaw)
• Cherokee: ᎫᎳᎨᎣ (gulageo)
• Corsican: Curaçao m
• Danish: Curaçao
• Dutch: Curaçao (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kuracao
• Estonian: Curaçao (et)
• French: Curaçao (fr) m
• German: Curaçao (de) n
• Greek: Κουρασάο (el) n (Kourasáo)
• Haitian Creole: Kiraso m
• Italian: Curaçao m
• Japanese: キュラソー (Kyurasō), クラサオ (Kurasao)
• Korean: 퀴라소 (Kwiraso)
• Latin: Cūrātiō f, īnsula Cūrātiōnis f, insula Curacensis f (New Latin), Curatius m (New Latin)
• Latvian: Kurasao
• Marathi: कुरासाओ (kurāsāo)
• Occitan: Curaçao m
• Papiamentu: Corsou, Kòrsou
• Polish: Curaçao (pl) n
• Portuguese: Curaçao (pt) m, Curaçau (pt) m, Curação m
• Russian: Кюраса́о (ru) m (Kjurasáo)
• Spanish: Curazao m, Curasao m
• Sranan Tongo: Korsow
• Thai: กือราเซา (gʉʉ-raa-sao)
• Ukrainian: Кюраса́о m (Kjurasáo)
• Volapük: Küraseän (vo)
• West Frisian: Kurasau n

Anagrams

• curacoa, curaçoa

Dutch

Etymology

From Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym but sometimes folk-etymologized as derived from Portuguese Ilha da Curação (“Isle of Healing”) from curação (“cure, healing”) in reference to the island's use as a place of recovery for sailors sick with scurvy and other ailments or from modification of coração (“heart”) in reference to its supposed importance in local trade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kyːraːˈsʌu/, /kuːraːˈsʌu/
• (Limburg) IPA^(key): /kyːraːˈzaʊ̯/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Cu‧ra‧çao

Proper noun

Curaçao n

1. An island and constituent country of the Netherlands.

Derived terms

• curaçao

 

French

Etymology

From Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁa.so/
• Homophone: curaçao

Proper noun

Curaçao m

1. Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Netherlands).

Derived terms

• corossol
• curaçao

 

German

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.raˈsaʊ̯/, /ky.raˈsaː.o/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Curaçao n (proper noun, genitive Curaçaos or (optionally with an article) Curaçao)

1. Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Netherlands)

Noun

Curaçao m (strong, genitive Curaçaos or Curaçao, plural Curaçaos or Curaçao)

1. curaçao (liqueur)

Papiamentu

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym. Doublet of Kòrsou.

Proper noun

Curaçao

1. Curaçao

   Synonym: Kòrsou

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Portuguese curação.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kju.raˈsa.ɔ/
• Rhymes: -aɔ
• Syllabification: Cu‧ra‧ça‧o

Proper noun

Curaçao n (indeclinable)

1. Curaçao (island)

Related terms

noun

• curaçao

 

Further reading

• Curaçao in Polish dictionaries at PWN