San Salvador

English

Alternative forms

• Salvador

Etymology

From Spanish San Salvador (“Holy Savior”), various places named in honor of Jesus Christ, from Spanish salvador, from Latin salvator, from salvāre (“to save”) + -tor (“forming agent nouns”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sæn ˈsælvədɔɹ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Proper noun

San Salvador

1. The capital city of El Salvador.
2. A department of El Salvador
3. (historical) Short for San Salvador Island, the first island discovered on Christopher Columbus's first voyage.
4. Short for San Salvador Island, an island in the Bahamas.
5. (historical) Short for San Salvador Island, a former name of Santiago, an island in Galapagos, Ecuador.

Translations

capital of El Salvador

• Albanian: San Salvadori
• Amharic: ሳን ሳልቫዶር (san salvador)
• Arabic: سَان سَلْفَادُور f (sān salfādūr)
• Armenian: Սան Սալվադոր (San Salvador)
• Azerbaijani: San-Salvador
• Belarusian: Сан-Сальвадо́р m (San-Salʹvadór)
• Bulgarian: Сан Салвадор (San Salvador)
• Central Nahuatl: San Salvador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖薩爾瓦多／圣萨尔瓦多 (zh) (Shèng-Sà'ěrwǎduō)

• Czech: San Salvador m
• Danish: San Salvador
• Dutch: San Salvador n
• Estonian: San Salvador (et)
• Finnish: San Salvador (fi)
• French: San Salvador (fr)
• Georgian: სან-სალვადორი (san-salvadori)
• German: San Salvador (de) n
• Greek: Σαν Σαλβαδόρ (San Salvadór)
• Hebrew: סן סלוודור (san salvador)
• Hindi: सान-साल्वाडोर m (sān-sālvāḍor)
• Hungarian: San Salvador (hu)
• Italian: San Salvador
• Japanese: サンサルバドル (ja) (Sansarubadoru), サン・サルバドール (San-Sarubadoru)
• Kannada: ಸಾನ್ ಸಾಲ್ವಡಾರ್ (sān sālvaḍār)
• Kazakh: Сан-Сальвадор (San-Salvador)
• Khmer: សន្តៈសាល់វ៉ាឌ័រ (km) (sɑɑntaʼsalvaadɔə), សាន់សាល់វ៉ាឌ័រ (san salvaadɔə)
• Korean: 산살바도르 (ko) (Sansalbadoreu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سان سەلڤادۆر (san selvador)

  Northern Kurdish: San Salvador

• Latvian: Sansalvadora
• Lithuanian: San Salvadoras
• Macedonian: Сан Салвадор m (San Salvador)
• Malayalam: സാൻ സാൽവദോർ (sāṉ sālvadōṟ)
• Marathi: सान साल्वादोर (sān sālvādor)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: San Salvador

• Persian: سان سالوادور (sân sâlvâdôr)
• Polish: San Salvador (pl)
• Portuguese: San Salvador f
• Punjabi: ਸਾਨ ਸਾਲਵਾਦੋਰ (sān sālvādor)
• Romanian: San Salvador (ro)
• Russian: Сан-Сальвадо́р (ru) m (San-Salʹvadór)
• Slovak: San Salvador
• Spanish: San Salvador (es) m
• Swedish: San Salvador (sv)
• Tamil: சான் சல்வடோர் (cāṉ calvaṭōr)
• Telugu: శాన్ సాల్వడార్ (śān sālvaḍār)
• Thai: ซานซัลวาดอร์ (saan-san-waa-dɔɔ)
• Tibetan: སན་སལ་ཝ་ཌོར། (san sal wa ḍor)
• Turkish: San Salvador
• Ukrainian: Сан-Сальвадо́р m (San-Salʹvadór)
• Urdu: سان سلواڈور (sān salvāḍōr)
• Uzbek: San-Salvador
• Vietnamese: Xan Xan-va-đo

Anagrams

• Salvadorans

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

San Salvador

1. San Salvador (the capital and largest city of the modern El Salvador).
2. San Salvador (a department of El Salvador)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [san salvador]

Proper noun

San Salvador m inan (related adjective sansalvadorský)

1. San Salvador (the capital and largest city of the modern El Salvador)
2. San Salvador (a department of El Salvador)

Declension

Declension of San Salvador (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	San Salvador
genitive	San Salvadoru
dative	San Salvadoru
accusative	San Salvador
vocative	San Salvadore
locative	San Salvadoru
instrumental	San Salvadorem

Further reading

• San Salvador in Internetová jazyková příručka

Portuguese

Proper noun

San Salvador f

1. San Salvador (the capital city of El Salvador)
2. San Salvador (a department of El Salvador)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsan salbaˈdoɾ/ [ˌsãn sal.β̞aˈð̞oɾ]
• Syllabification: San Sal‧va‧dor

Proper noun

San Salvador m

1. San Salvador (the capital city of El Salvador)
2. San Salvador (a department of El Salvador)

Derived terms

• sansalvadoreño