Buenos Aires

English

Alternative forms

• Buenos Ayres (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Buenos Aires, named after a title of the Virgin Mary, itself ultimately from Aragonese buen ayre (literally “good air”) or Sardinian bonaria. The first English attestation dates to 1764.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌbweɪnoʊs ˈaɪɹɪs/, /ˈɛ(ə)ɹɪs/, /ˌbwɛn-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌbweɪnəs ˈaɪɹɪs/, /-nɒs/, /ˌbwɛn-/, /-ɹiːz/, /-ɹɪz/, /ˈɛ(ə)ɹ-/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Proper noun

Buenos Aires

1. The capital city of Argentina.
2. The largest and most populous province in Argentina, part of the Pampas region.

Derived terms

• Little Buenos Aires

 

Translations

capital of Argentina

• Akan: Buenɔs Aires
• Arabic: بْوِينُس آيْرِس f (bwīnus ʔāyris)
• Armenian: Բուենոս Այրես (hy) (Buenos Ayres)
• Asturian: Buenos Aires (ast)
• Belarusian: Буэ́нас-А́йрэс m (Buénas-Ájres)
• Bengali: বুয়েনোস আইরেস (buẏenōs aires)
• Bulgarian: Буе́нос А́йрес m (Buénos Ájres)
• Catalan: Buenos Aires ?
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布宜諾斯艾利斯／布宜诺斯艾利斯 (zh) (Bùyínuòsī-Àilìsī)

• Czech: Buenos Aires (cs) n
• Danish: Buenos Aires n
• Dutch: Buenos Aires (nl) n
• Esperanto: Bonaero (eo)
• Farefare: Buenos Aires
• Finnish: Buenos Aires (fi)
• French: Buenos Aires (fr) ?
• Georgian: ბუენოს-აირესი (buenos-airesi)
• German: Buenos Aires (de) n
• Greek: Μπουένος Άιρες (el) n (Bouénos Áires)
• Hebrew: בּוּאֶנוֹס אַיְרֶס \ בואנוס איירס f
• Hindi: ब्युएनॉस एरीस m (byuenŏs erīs)
• Hungarian: Buenos Aires (hu)
• Italian: Buenos Aires (it) f
• Japanese: ブエノスアイレス (ja) (Buenosuairesu)
• Khmer: ប៊ុយណូស៊ែ (km) (buynousɛɛ), ប៊ុយណូស៊ែរ (buynousɛɛ)
• Korean: 부에노스 아이레스 (Buenoseu Aireseu), 붸노스 애레스 (Bwenoseu Aereseu)
• Latin: Bonaēropolis ?
• Latvian: Buenos Aires
• Maltese: Bwenos Ajres f
• Marathi: बुएनोस आइरेस n (buenos āires)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Буэнос-Айрес (mn) (Buenos-Ajres)

• Norman: Bouonézâr ? (Jersey)
• Persian: بوئنوس آیرس (bu'enus âyres)
• Polish: Buenos Aires (pl) n
• Portuguese: Buenos Aires (pt) f
• Russian: Буэ́нос-А́йрес (ru) m (Buénos-Ájres)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Буенос Ајрес m

  Roman: Buenos Aires (sh) m

• Sinhalese: බුවනෝස් අයර්ස් (buwanōs ayars)
• Spanish: Buenos Aires (es) ?
• Swedish: Buenos Aires (sv) n
• Thai: บัวโนสไอเรส (buua-nóos-ai-rées)
• Ukrainian: Буе́нос-А́йрес m (Buénos-Ájres)
• Urdu: بیونس آئرس m
• Vietnamese: Lương Phong, Bu-ê-nốt Ai-rết
• Yiddish: בוענאָס־אײַרעס ? (buenos-ayres)

References

• John Nourse (Londres) (1764). Navigation Or, the Art of Sailing Upon the Sea: Containing a Demonstration of the Fundamental Principles of this Art Together with All the Practical Rules of Computing a Ship's Way Both by Plain Sailing, Mercator, and Middel Latitude Founded Upon the Foregoing Principles with Many Other Useful Things Hereto Belonging to which are Added Several Necessary Tables.

Catalan

Proper noun

Buenos Aires ?

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Buenos Aires

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [buɛnos ajrɛs]

Proper noun

Buenos Aires n (indeclinable, related adjective buenosaireský)

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

Further reading

• “Buenos Aires”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Proper noun

Buenos Aires

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Buenos Aires.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbweː.nɔs ˌaːi̯.rəs/, /ˌbwɛ-/, /-reːs/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Buenos Aires n

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɥe.nɔ.z‿ɛʁ/
• (proscribed) IPA^(key): /bwe.no.z‿ɛʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Buenos Aires ?

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbu̯ɛnɔsˈʔaɪ̯rəs/, [buˌɛ-], [ˌbʋɛ-], [-ʁəs]
• IPA^(key): /ˌbɔnɔs-/ (simplified; somewhat common)
• IPA^(key): /ˌbu̯eːnɔs-/ (rare)

  • Audio:

    (file)

Proper noun

Buenos Aires n (proper noun, genitive Buenos Aires' or (with an article) Buenos Aires)

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

Declension

Declension of Buenos Aires [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Buenos Aires
genitive	des	Buenos Aires', Buenos Aires1
dative	dem	Buenos Aires
accusative	das	Buenos Aires

¹With an article.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Buenos Aires.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbwɛ.nɔs ˈaj.rɛs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ajrɛs

Proper noun

Buenos Aires n (indeclinable)

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

Further reading

• Buenos Aires in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Buenos Aires in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /buˈɛ̃.nuz ˈaj.ɾis/ [bʊˈɛ̃.nuz ˈaɪ̯.ɾis], (faster pronunciation) /ˈbwɛ̃.nuz ˈaj.ɾis/ [ˈbwɛ̃.nuz ˈaɪ̯.ɾis]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /buˈɛ̃.nuz ˈaj.ɾis/ [bʊˈɛ̃.nuz ˈaɪ̯.ɾis], (faster pronunciation) /ˈbwɛ̃.nuz ˈaj.ɾis/ [ˈbwɛ̃.nuz ˈaɪ̯.ɾis]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /buˈɛ̃.nuz ˈaj.ɾiʃ/ [bʊˈɛ̃.nuz ˈaɪ̯.ɾiʃ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈbwɛ̃.nuz ˈaj.ɾiʃ/ [ˈbwɛ̃.nuz ˈaɪ̯.ɾiʃ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /buˈɛ.noz ˈaj.ɾes/ [bʊˈɛ.noz ˈaɪ̯.ɾes], (faster pronunciation) /ˈbwɛ.noz ˈaj.ɾes/ [ˈbwɛ.noz ˈaɪ̯.ɾes]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbwɛ.nuz ˈaj.ɾɨʃ/

Proper noun

Buenos Aires

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

Slovak

Proper noun

Buenos Aires n

1. Buenos Aires (the capital of Argentina)

References

• “Buenos Aires”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbwenos ˈaiɾes/ [ˌbwe.nos ˈai̯.ɾes]
• Syllabification: Bue‧nos Ai‧res

Proper noun

Buenos Aires ?

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)

   Synonym: Bs. As.

2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

Derived terms

• bonaerense

 

Further reading

• “Buenos Aires”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Proper noun

Buenos Aires n (genitive Buenos Aires)

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)