Amazonas

See also: amazonas

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Amazonas and Spanish Amazonas, related to English Amazon.

Proper noun

Amazonas

1. A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Manaus
2. A department of Colombia.
3. A region of Peru.
4. A state of Venezuela.

Translations

state of Brazil

• Albanian: Amazonas
• Arabic: اَلْأَمَازُونْ (al-ʔamāzūn), أَمَازُونَاسْ (ʔamāzūnās)
• Armenian: Ամազոնաս (hy) (Amazonas)
• Azerbaijani: Amazonas
• Bulgarian: Амазонас (Amazonas), Амазонка (Amazonka)
• Catalan: Amazones (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 亞馬遜洲／亚马逊洲 (ngaa³ maa⁵ seon³ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 亞馬遜洲／亚马逊洲 (Yàmǎxùn-zhōu), 亞馬孫洲／亚马孙洲 (Yàmǎsūn-zhōu)

• Czech: Amazonas (cs)
• Danish: Amazonas
• Dutch: Amazonas (nl)
• Estonian: Amazonas (et)
• Finnish: Amazonas (fi)
• French: Amazonas (fr)
• Georgian: ამაზონასი (amazonasi)
• German: Amazonas (de)
• Greek: Αμαζόνας (Amazónas)
• Hebrew: אַמַזוֹנָאס (amazonas)
• Hindi: आमेज़ोनास (āmezonās)
• Hungarian: Amazonas (hu)
• Icelandic: Amazonas
• Italian: Amazonas (it)
• Japanese: アマゾナス州 (Amazonasu-shū)
• Korean: 아마조나스주 (Amajonaseu-ju)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەمازۆن (ckb) (emazon)

• Latvian: Amazonasa
• Lithuanian: Amazonė
• Marathi: अमेझोनास (amejhonās)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Amazonas (no)

• Persian: آمازوناس (âmâzonâs)
• Polish: Amazonas (pl)
• Portuguese: Amazonas (pt)
• Romanian: Amazonas
• Russian: Амазо́нас (Amazónas)
• Slovak: Amazonas
• Spanish: Amazonas (es)
• Swedish: Amazonas
• Tamil: அமேசோனாசு (amēcōṉācu)
• Telugu: అమెజానాస్ (amejānās)
• Thai: อามาโซนัช (aa-maa-soo-nát)
• Turkish: Amazonas (tr)
• Ukrainian: Амазо́нас (Amazónas)
• Urdu: ایمازوناس (emāzonās)
• Uzbek: Amazonas
• Vietnamese: Amazonas

department of Colombia

• Danish: Amazonas
• Marathi: आमासोनास (āmāsonās)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Amazonas (no)

• Portuguese: Amazonas (pt)
• Spanish: Amazonas (es)

region of Peru

• Marathi: आमासोनास (āmāsonās)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Amazonas (no)

• Portuguese: Amazonas (pt)
• Spanish: Amazonas (es)

state of Venezuela

• Marathi: आमासोनास (āmāsonās)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Amazonas (no)

• Portuguese: Amazonas (pt)
• Spanish: Amazonas (es)

See also

• (states of Brazil) state of Brazil; Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goias, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins ^{(Category: en:States of Brazil)}

Further reading

• Category:Amazonas on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Amazonas on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Amazonas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amaˈt͡soːnas/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Amazonas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Amazonas)

1. Amazon (a river in South America)

Declension

Declension of Amazonas [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Amazonas
genitive	eines	des	Amazonas
dative	einem	dem	Amazonas
accusative	einen	den	Amazonas

Further reading

• “Amazonas” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Amazonas, Fluss” in Duden online
• “Amazonas, Bundesstaat” in Duden online

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒmɒzonɒs]
• Hyphenation: Ama‧zo‧nas
• Rhymes: -ɒs

Proper noun

Amazonas

1. Amazon (river)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Amazonas	—
accusative	Amazonast	—
dative	Amazonasnak	—
instrumental	Amazonasszal	—
causal-final	Amazonasért	—
translative	Amazonasszá	—
terminative	Amazonasig	—
essive-formal	Amazonasként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Amazonasban	—
superessive	Amazonason	—
adessive	Amazonasnál	—
illative	Amazonasba	—
sublative	Amazonasra	—
allative	Amazonashoz	—
elative	Amazonasból	—
delative	Amazonasról	—
ablative	Amazonastól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Amazonasé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Amazonaséi	—

Possessive forms of Amazonas
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Amazonasom	—
2nd person sing.	Amazonasod	—
3rd person sing.	Amazonasa	—
1st person plural	Amazonasunk	—
2nd person plural	Amazonasotok	—
3rd person plural	Amazonasuk	—

Derived terms

• amazonasi

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Amazonas

1. the Amazon, river in South America
2. Amazonas, a state in Brazil
3. Amazonas, a province in Colombia
4. Amazonas, a region in Peru
5. Amazonas, a state in Venezuela

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.maˈzõ.nɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.maˈzõ.nɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.maˈzõ.nɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.maˈzo.nas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.mɐˈzo.nɐʃ/

• Audio (Brazil):

  (file)

Proper noun

Amazonas m or f pl

1. Amazon (a river in northern South America)
2. Amazonas (a state of the North Region, Brazil; capital: Manaus)

   AM (abbreviation)

3. Amazonas (a region of Peru)
4. Amazonas (a department of Colombia)
5. Amazonas (a state of Venezuela)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Amazonas.

Related terms

• amazona
• amazonense (demonym)
• Amazônia

See also

• (states of Brazil) estado do Brazil; Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins ^{(Category: pt:States of Brazil)}

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /amaˈθonas/ [a.maˈθo.nas]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /amaˈsonas/ [a.maˈso.nas]
• Rhymes: -onas
• Syllabification: A‧ma‧zo‧nas

Proper noun

Amazonas m

1. Amazon (a river in Brazil)
2. A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Manaus
3. Amazonas (a region of Peru)
4. Amazonas (a department of Colombia)
5. Amazonas (a state of Venezuela)

Derived terms

• amazonense

 

Descendants

• →⇒ Ye'kwana: Amasonanña