Caracas

See also: caraças and caracas

English

Etymology

From Spanish Caracas. Named after the Caraca tribe. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹækəs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ækəs

Proper noun

Caracas

1. The capital city of Venezuela.

Related terms

• Caracasian (rare)

Translations

capital of Venezuela

• Albanian: Karákas
• Arabic: كَرَاكَاس f (karākās)
• Armenian: Կարակաս (hy) (Karakas)
• Azerbaijani: Karakas (az)
• Belarusian: Кара́кас m (Karákas)
• Bulgarian: Кара́кас m (Karákas)
• Burmese: ကရာကက်စ်မြို့ (ka.rakakcmrui.)
• Catalan: Caracas
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡拉卡斯 (Kǎlākǎsī)

• Czech: Caracas (cs)
• Danish: Caracas
• Dutch: Caracas (nl) n
• Esperanto: Karakaso (eo)
• Finnish: Caracas (fi)
• French: Caracas (fr) f
• Georgian: კარაკასი (ḳaraḳasi)
• German: Caracas (de) n
• Greek: Καράκας (el) (Karákas)
• Hebrew: קראקס \ קָרָקָס f (karakas)
• Hindi: काराकास m (kārākās)
• Hungarian: Caracas (hu)
• Italian: Caracas f
• Japanese: カラカス (ja) (Karakasu)
• Kazakh: Каракас (Karakas)
• Khmer: ការ៉ាកាស (km) (kaaraakaah)
• Korean: 카라카스 (Karakaseu)
• Kyrgyz: Каракас (Karakas)
• Latvian: Karakasa f
• Lithuanian: Karakasas m
• Macedonian: Каракас m (Karakas)
• Maltese: Karakas
• Marathi: काराकास n (kārākās)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Каракас (Karakas)

• Navajo: Kʼáwakʼas
• Persian: کاراکاس (kârâkâs)
• Polish: Caracas (pl) n
• Portuguese: Caracas (pt) f
• Romanian: Caracas (ro)
• Russian: Кара́кас (ru) m (Karákas)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Каракас m

  Roman: Caracas (sh) m

• Slovak: Caracas
• Slovene: Caracas
• Spanish: Caracas (es) m
• Tajik: Каракас (Karakas)
• Tatar: Каракас (Qaraqas)
• Thai: การากัส
• Turkish: Karakas (tr)
• Turkmen: Karakas
• Ukrainian: Кара́кас m (Karákas)
• Urdu: کاراکاس m (kārākās)
• Uzbek: Karakas
• Vietnamese: Ca-ra-cát
• Yiddish: קאַראַקאַס n (karakas)

Anagrams

• cascara, Saccara

Catalan

Proper noun

Caracas m

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkarakas]

Proper noun

Caracas m inan (related adjective caracaský)

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela)

Declension

Declension of Caracas (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Caracas
genitive	Caracasu
dative	Caracasu
accusative	Caracas
vocative	Caracase
locative	Caracasu
instrumental	Caracasem

Further reading

• “Caracas”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Caracas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈra.kas/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -akas
• Syllabification: Ca‧ra‧cas

Proper noun

Caracas n (indeclinable)

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela)

Derived terms

adjective

• karakaski

 

nouns

• karakaska
• karakaszczyk

 

Further reading

• Caracas in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾa.kɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾa.kɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾa.kɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾa.kas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈɾa.kɐʃ/

• Hyphenation: Ca‧ra‧cas

Proper noun

Caracas

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkarakas]

Proper noun

Caracas m inan (genitive singular Caracasu)

1. Caracas (the capital of Venezuela)

References

• “Caracas”, 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): /kaˈɾakas/ [kaˈɾa.kas]
• Rhymes: -akas
• Syllabification: Ca‧ra‧cas

Proper noun

Caracas ?

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela)

Descendants

• →⇒ Ye'kwana: Kadakanña

Anagrams

• carcasa
• cáscara