Dominican Republic

English

Etymology

Latinised from Spanish República Dominicana, in honor of Santo Domingo, which could refer to a Sunday, Jesus, or St Dominic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɒmˌɪn.ɪ.kən ɹɪˈpʌb.lɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊˌmɪn.ɪ.kən ɹəˈpʌb.lɪk/

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Proper noun

Dominican Republic

2. A country in the Caribbean.

Translations

country in the Caribbean

• Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة اَلدُّومِنِيكَان‎ f (jumhuriyya d-duminikān)
• Armenian: Դոմինիկյան Հանրապետություն (hy) (Dominikyan Hanrapetutʿyun)
• Belarusian: Дамініка́нская Рэспу́бліка f (Daminikánskaja Respúblika)
• Bengali: ডোমিনিকান প্রজাতন্ত্র (bn) (ḍominikan prôjatôntr)
• Breton: Republik Dominikan
• Bulgarian: Доминика́нска репу́блика f (Dominikánska repúblika)
• Burmese: ဒိုမီနီကန်သမ္မတ (duiminikansamma.ta.)
• Catalan: República Dominicana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多米尼加共和國 (zh), 多米尼加共和国 (zh) (Duōmǐníjiā gònghéguó)

• Czech: Dominikánská republika (cs) f
• Danish: Dominikanske Republik
• Dutch: Dominicaanse Republiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: Domingo (eo)
• Estonian: Dominikaani Vabariik
• Faroese: Dominikalýðveldið n
• Finnish: Dominikaaninen tasavalta (fi)
• French: République dominicaine (fr)
• Galician: República Dominicana (gl) f
• Georgian: დომინიკელთა რესპუბლიკა (dominiḳelta resṗubliḳa)
• German: Dominikanische Republik (de) f
• Greek: Δομινικανή Δημοκρατία (el) f (Dominikaní Dimokratía)
• Hebrew: הרפובליקה הדומיניקנית‎ f (ha-republika ha-dominikanit)
• Hindi: दोमिनिकन गणराज्य (dominikan gaṇrājya)
• Hungarian: Dominikai Köztársaság (hu)
• Icelandic: Dóminíska lýðveldið (is)
• Interlingua: Republica Dominican
• Italian: Repubblica dominicana, (a correct translation) Repubblica Dominicana (it) f
• Japanese: ドミニカ共和国 (ja) (Dominika kyōwakoku)
• Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋដូមីនីក (km) (saathiərĕəʼnaʼrŏət doumiiniik)

• Korean: 도미니카 공화국 (ko) (Dominika gonghwaguk)
• Latvian: Dominikāna f, Dominikānas Republika f
• Lithuanian: Dominikos Respublika (lt) f
• Macedonian: Доминика́нска Република (mk) f (Dominikánska Republika)
• Maltese: ir-Repubblika Dominikana f
• Navajo: Domingo bikéyah
• Norman: Républyique Dominnicaine f
• Norwegian: Den dominikanske republikk
• Occitan: Republica Dominicana (oc) f
• Persian: جمهوری دومینیکن‎ (jomhuri-ye dominikan)
• Polish: Dominikana (pl)
• Portuguese: República Dominicana (pt)
• Romanian: Republica Dominicană (ro) f
• Russian: Доминика́нская Респу́блика (ru) f (Dominikánskaja Respúblika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Доминиканска Република f

  Roman: Dominikanska Republika (sh) f

• Sicilian: Ripùbbrica Duminicana f
• Slovak: Dominikánska republika f
• Spanish: República Dominicana (es)
• Swahili: Jamhuri ya Dominika (sw)
• Swedish: Dominikanska republiken (sv)
• Thai: สาธารณรัฐโดมินิกัน (th) (sǎa-taa-rá-ná-rát doo-mí-ní-gan)
• Tibetan: ཌོ་མི་ནི་ཀན་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ (ḍo mi ni kan spyi mthun rgyal khab)
• Turkish: Dominik Cumhuriyeti (tr)
• Ukrainian: Домініка́нська Респу́бліка (uk) f (Dominikánsʹka Respúblika)
• Vietnamese: Cộng hoà Đô-mi-ni-ca-na, Đô-mi-ni-ca-na, Cộng hòa Dominica
• Volapük: Sandominän (vo)
• Yoruba: Dòmíníkánì

See also

• Santo Domingo
• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States