Aruba

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹuː.bə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -uːbə

Proper noun

Aruba

1. An island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea.
   • 1988, “Kokomo”, in Still Cruisin', performed by The Beach Boys:

     Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya / Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama

2. a Meitei surname from Manipuri

Derived terms

• Arubian

Translations

territory in the Caribbean

• Afrikaans: Aruba
• Antillean Creole: Awouba f
• Arabic: أَرُوبَا f (ʔarūbā)
• Breton: Aruba
• Bulgarian: Аруба (Aruba)
• Catalan: Aruba f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿魯巴／阿鲁巴 (zh) (Ālǔba)

• Danish: Aruba
• Dutch: Aruba (nl) n
• Esperanto: Arubo
• Finnish: Aruba (fi)
• French: Aruba (fr) f
• Georgian: არუბა (ka) (aruba)
• German: Aruba (de) n
• Greek: Αρούμπα (el) f (Aroúmpa)
• Hebrew: אָרוּבָּה (he) (aruba)
• Hindi: अरूबा (hi) (arūbā)
• Hungarian: Aruba (hu)
• Interlingua: Aruba
• Irish: Arúba m
• Italian: Aruba (it) f
• Japanese: アルバ (ja) (Aruba)
• Korean: 아루바 (Aruba)
• Latin: Aruba f
• Macedonian: Ару́ба f (Arúba)
• Malay: Aruba
• Maltese: Aruba
• Norman: Aruba (Jersey)
• North Frisian: Aruuba
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Aruba

  Nynorsk: Aruba

• Occitan: Aruba f
• Papiamentu: Aruba f
• Polish: Aruba (pl)
• Portuguese: Aruba (pt) f
• Romanian: Aruba f
• Russian: Ару́ба (ru) f (Arúba)
• Scots: Aruba
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Аруба f

  Roman: Aruba f

• Spanish: Aruba (es) f
• Swedish: Aruba (sv)
• Thai: อารูบา (th) (aa-ruu-bâa)
• Tigrinya: ኣሩባ (ʾaruba)
• Turkish: Aruba (tr)
• West Frisian: Arûba n

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

Further reading

• Aruba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Barua, abura

Dutch

Etymology

Uncertain. Proposed etymologies include a derivation from Spanish oro (“gold”) and the third-person singular preterite form of haber (“to have”) ("there was gold"), a derivation from Kalinago oruba (“well-placed”) or a compound of two Kalinago words, ora (“shell”) and oubao (“island”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːˈru.baː/, /aːˈry.baː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Aru‧ba

Proper noun

Aruba n

1. Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Derived terms

• Arubaans

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈruː.ba/, [äˈruːbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈru.ba/, [äˈruːbä]

Proper noun

Arūba f sg (genitive Arūbae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Arūba
Genitive	Arūbae
Dative	Arūbae
Accusative	Arūbam
Ablative	Arūbā
Vocative	Arūba
Locative	Arūbae

Norman

Proper noun

Aruba

1. (Jersey) Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑɾʉːbɑ/

Proper noun

Aruba

1. Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Aruba

1. Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Arawak Taíno ora (“shell”) + oubao (“island”).

Proper noun

Aruba

1. Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾu.bɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾu.bɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾu.ba/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɾu.bɐ/ [ɐˈɾu.βɐ]

Proper noun

Aruba f

1. Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Derived terms

• arubano

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Aruba f (Cyrillic spelling Аруба)

1. Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾuba/ [aˈɾu.β̞a]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: A‧ru‧ba

Proper noun

Aruba f

1. Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Derived terms

• arubano

 

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Aruba n (genitive Arubas)

1. Aruba (a dependent territory of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Related terms

• arubansk (“Aruban”, adjective)
• aruban c (“Aruban male”)
• arubanska c (“Aruban female”)