Canada

See also: canada, Canadá, Canadà, cañada, and Ca-na-đa

EnglishEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From the Laurentian canada ‎(“village, settlement”). See "Name of Canada" on Wikipedia.

PronunciationEdit

(Canada, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkænədə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈkænədə/, [ˈkʰænɪ̈də]
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Hyphenation: Can‧ada

Proper nounEdit

Canada ‎(plural Canadas)

A country in North America; official name: Canada (formerly also Dominion of Canada 1867-1982).
(historical) Lower Canada 1791-1840 (also Canada East 1840-1867, now province of Quebec) or respectively Upper Canada (Canada West, now province of Ontario), often “the Canadas” (or politically, “United Canada” 1840-1867).
(historical) (1608-1763) The most active province of New France. Nowadays corresponds to the territory of much of Quebec, Ontario, and several US states.

SynonymsEdit

America's Hat (humorous)
Canuckistan (humorous or derogatory)
Dominion of Canada (historical)
Great White North (informal)
neighbor to the north (US, informal)
People's Republic of Canada (humorous or derogatory)
Soviet Canuckistan (humorous or derogatory)

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

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TranslationsEdit

country in North America

Abenaki: Kanada
Abkhaz: Канада ‎(Ḳānādā)
Afrikaans: Kanada
Albanian: Kanadaja
Alemannic German: Kanada n
Amharic: ካናዳ ‎(kanada)
Arabic: كَنَدَا f ‎(kanadā)
Aragonese: Canadá
Aramaic: ܩܢܕܐ ‎(qanadā)
Armenian: Կանադա ‎(Kanada)
Asturian: Canadá (ast)
Azeri: Kanada (az)
Bashkir: Канада ‎(Kanada)
Basque: Kanada (eu)
Bavarian: Kanada
Belarusian: Кана́да f ‎(Kanáda)
Bengali: কানাডা ‎(kanaḑa)
Bislama: Kanada
Breton: Kanada
Bulgarian: Ка́нада f ‎(Kánada)
Burmese: ကနေဒါ ‎(ka.neda)
Catalan: Canadà (ca)
Cebuano: Canada
Chinese:
Cantonese: 加拿大 ‎(gaa¹ naa⁴ daai⁶)

Hakka: 加拿大 ‎(Kâ-nâ-thai)

Mandarin: 加拿大 (zh) ‎(Jiānádà)

Min Nan: 加拿大 ‎(Ka-ná-tāi)
Chuvash: Канада ‎(Kanada)
Cornish: Kanada
Cree: ᑳᓇᑕ ‎(kânata)
Czech: Kanada (cs) f
Danish: Canada (da)
Dhivehi: ކެނެޑާ ‎(keneḍā)
Dutch: Canada (nl)
Dzongkha: ཀེ་ན་ཌ་ ‎(ke na ḍa)
Esperanto: Kanado (eo)
Estonian: Kanada (et)
Faroese: Kanada
Finnish: Kanada (fi)
French: Canada (fr) m
Galician: Canadá (gl)
Georgian: კანადა ‎(ḳanada)
German: Kanada (de) n
Greek: Καναδάς (el) m ‎(Kanadás)
Greenlandic: Kanata
Guaraní: Kanatã
Gujarati: કેનેડા ‎(keneḍā)
Haitian Creole: Kanada
Hausa: Kyanadà f
Hawaiian: Kanakā
Hebrew: קָנָדָּה (he) f ‎(kanada)
Hindi: कनाडा (hi) ‎(kanāḍā)
Hungarian: Kanada (hu)
Icelandic: Kanada (is)
Ido: Kanada (io)
Igbo: Canada
Ilocano: Canada
Indonesian: Kanada (id)
Interlingua: Canada
Interlingue: Canada
Inuktitut: ᑲᓇᑕ (iu) ‎(kanata)
Inupiak: Canada
Irish: Ceanada
Italian: Canada (it) m
Japanese: カナダ (ja) ‎(Kanada), 加奈陀 (ja) ‎(Kanada)
Javanese: Kanada
Kalenjin: ^{(please verify)} k
Kamba: Kanada
Kannada: ಕೆನಡಾ (kn) ‎(kenaḍā)
Kapampangan: Canada
Kazakh: Канада ‎(Kanada)
Khmer: កាណាដា (km) ‎(kaanaadaa)
Korean: 캐나다 ‎(Kaenada)
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: Keneda (ku)

Sorani: که‌نه‌دا
Kyrgyz: Канада (ky) ‎(Kanada)
Lao: ການາດາ ‎(kā nā dā)
Latin: Canada (la)
Latvian: Kanāda (lv)
Limburgish: Canada (li)

Lingala: Kanadá
Lithuanian: Kanada (lt)
Lojban: kadnygu'e
Low German:
German Low German: Kanada (nds)
Lower Sorbian: Kanada
Luo: Kanada
Luxembourgish: Kanada (lb)
Macedonian: Канада (mk) f ‎(Kanada)
Malay: Kanada
Malayalam: കാനഡ ‎(kānaḍa)
Maltese: il-Kanada
Manx: Yn Chanadey
Marathi: कॅनडा ‎(kĕnaḍā)
Mongolian: Канад (mn) ‎(Kanad)
Nahuatl: Canauhtlān
Nauruan: Canada
Navajo: Deeteel bikéyah
Neapolitan: Canadà
Nepali: क्यानाडा (ne) ‎(kyānāḍā)
Norman: Cannada m
Northern Sami: Kanáda
Norwegian: Canada (no)
Nynorsk: Canada (nn)
Novial: Kanada
Occitan: Canadà (oc)
Ojibwe: Zhaaganaashiiwaki
Oromo: Canada
Ossetian: Канадæ ‎(Kanadæ)
Pashto: کاناډا (ps) ‎(kānāḋā)
Persian: کانادا (fa) ‎(kânâdâ)
Piedmontese: Canadà
Polish: Kanada (pl) f
Portuguese: Canadá (pt) m
Punjabi: ਕੈਨੇਡਾ ‎(kaineḍā)
Quechua: Kanada
Romanian: Canada (ro) f
Russian: Кана́да (ru) f ‎(Kanáda)
Samoan: Kanata
Samogitian: Kanada
Sanskrit: केनडा ‎(kenaḍā)
Scots: Canadae
Scottish Gaelic: Canada
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Канада f

Roman: Kanada (sh) f
Sicilian: Canadà m
Sinhalese: කැනඩාව ‎(kænaḍāva)
Slovak: Kanada f
Slovene: Kánada (sl) f
Somali: Canada
Spanish: Canadá (es) m
Swahili: Kanada (sw)
Swedish: Kanada (sv)
Tagalog: Kanada
Tahitian: Tanata
Tajik: Канада (tg) ‎(Kanada)
Tamil: கனடா (ta) ‎(kaṉaṭā)
Tatar: Канада ‎(Qanada)
Telugu: కెనడా (te) ‎(kenaḍā)
Tetum: Kanadá
Thai: แคนาดา (th) ‎(kɛɛ-naa-daa)
Tibetan: ཁ་ནའ་ཏ ‎(kha na' ta)
Tok Pisin: Kanada
Tongan: Kānata
Tsonga: Canada
Turkish: Kanada (tr)
Turkmen: Kanada
Ukrainian: Кана́да (uk) f ‎(Kanáda)
Urdu: کینیڈا ‎(keneḋā), کناڈا ‎(kanāḍā)
Uyghur: كانادا ‎(kanada)
Uzbek: Kanada (uz)
Venetian: Canada
Veps: Kanad
Vietnamese: Ca-na-đa, Gia Nã Đại (加拿大)
Volapük: Kanadän (vo)
Welsh: Canada (cy)
West Frisian: Kanada (fy)
Wolof: Kanadaa
Yiddish: קאַנאַדע ‎(kanade)
Yoruba: Kánádà
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
Zulu: IKhanada

ReferencesEdit

“Canada” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Jacques Cartier (1545), Relation originale de Jacques Cartier, Paris: Tross [1863], p 48.

NounEdit

Canada ‎(plural Canadas)

(U.S., informal) A country bordering a larger country that shares many similarities with it, but is overshadowed by the more prominent larger.
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  Belgium is France's Canada.