Nicaragua
English
editEtymology
editNative town name Nicarao + Spanish agua (“water”)
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editNicaragua
- A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Nicaragua.
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See also
edit- Managua
- (countries of Central America) country of Central America; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
Asturian
editProper noun
editNicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Derived terms
editCatalan
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ni.kəˈɾa.ɣwə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ni.kaˈɾa.ɣwa]
Audio (Valencia): (file)
Proper noun
editNicaragua f
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Derived terms
editCentral Huasteca Nahuatl
editProper noun
editNicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Danish
editProper noun
editNicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Related terms
editDutch
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Proper noun
editNicaragua ? n
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editNicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Declension
editInflection of Nicaragua (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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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 | — | |
abessive | Nicaraguatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
editGerman
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editNicaragua n (proper noun, genitive Nicaraguas or (optionally with an article) Nicaragua)
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Derived terms
editHungarian
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editNicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Declension
editInflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | — |
Derived terms
editItalian
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editNicaragua f
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Derived terms
editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ni.kaˈra.ɡu.a/, [nɪkäˈräɡuä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ni.kaˈra.ɡu.a/, [nikäˈräːɡuä]
Proper noun
editNicaragua f sg (genitive Nicaraguae); first declension
- (New Latin) Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Declension
editFirst-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Nicaragua |
Genitive | Nicaraguae |
Dative | Nicaraguae |
Accusative | Nicaraguam |
Ablative | Nicaraguā |
Vocative | Nicaragua |
Norwegian Bokmål
editProper noun
editNicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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editNorwegian Nynorsk
editProper noun
editNicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Related terms
editSpanish
editEtymology
editUnknown. 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
edit- IPA(key): /nikaˈɾaɡwa/ [ni.kaˈɾa.ɣ̞wa]
Audio (Mexico): (file) - Rhymes: -aɡwa
- Syllabification: Ni‧ca‧ra‧gua
Proper noun
editNicaragua f
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Derived terms
editSwedish
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Proper noun
editNicaragua n (genitive Nicaraguas)
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- Nicaragua in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
- Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
- Svensk MeSH
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English 5-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Nicaragua
- en:Countries in Central America
- en:Countries
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian proper nouns
- ast:Nicaragua
- ast:Countries in Central America
- ast:Countries
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with audio links
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan proper nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Nicaragua
- ca:Countries in Central America
- ca:Countries
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl lemmas
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl proper nouns
- nch:Nicaragua
- nch:Countries in Central America
- nch:Countries
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish terms spelled with C
- da:Nicaragua
- da:Countries in Central America
- da:Countries
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- nl:Nicaragua
- nl:Countries in Central America
- nl:Countries
- Finnish terms derived from Spanish
- Finnish 5-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with C
- fi:Nicaragua
- fi:Countries in Central America
- fi:Countries
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- German 5-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Nicaragua
- de:Countries in Central America
- de:Countries
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian terms with manual IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒ
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒ/5 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian proper nouns
- hu:Nicaragua
- hu:Countries in Central America
- hu:Countries
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/aɡwa
- Rhymes:Italian/aɡwa/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Nicaragua
- it:Countries in Central America
- it:Countries
- Latin 5-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- New Latin
- la:Nicaragua
- la:Countries in Central America
- la:Countries
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms spelled with C
- nb:Nicaragua
- nb:Countries in Central America
- nb:Countries
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms spelled with C
- nn:Nicaragua
- nn:Countries in Central America
- nn:Countries
- Spanish terms with unknown etymologies
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡwa
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡwa/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Nicaragua
- es:Countries in Central America
- es:Countries
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- sv:Nicaragua
- sv:Countries in Central America
- sv:Countries