Dominican Republic

English

Etymology

Calque of Spanish República Dominicana, in honor of santo (“holy; saint”) 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

the Dominican Republic

2. A country in the Caribbean. Capital: Santo Domingo

Derived terms

• Dominican Republican

Translations

country in the Caribbean

• Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة اَلدُّومِنِيكَان f (jumhuriyya d-duminikān)
• Armenian: Դոմինիկյան Հանրապետություն (hy) (Dominikyan Hanrapetutʻyun)
• Belarusian: Дамініка́нская Рэспу́бліка f (Daminikánskaja Respúblika)
• Bengali: ডোমিনিকান প্রজাতন্ত্র (bn) (ḍōminikan projatontro)
• 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／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), Dominika Respubliko
• 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), 도미니까 공화국 (ko) (Dominikka gonghwaguk) (North Korea)
• 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) f
• 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 of America