Yucatán

See also: Yucatan

English

Map of Mexico highlighting Yucatán

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Yucatán. Several etymologies for this name have been proposed:

• Perhaps the most well-known is where it is said to derive from Tabasco Chontal Yokot'an, being either tectetan, meaning “I do not understand you” or uyutan, uyukatan, or yukutan, “listen to them talk!”.
• Bernal Diaz derived the name from the vegetable yuca + tale, a hillock in which the tuber is planted.

Proper noun

Yucatán

1. A peninsula in North America incorporating the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo as well as Belize and northeastern Guatemala.
2. A state of Mexico.

Related terms

• Yucatec, Yucatecan

Translations

a peninsula in North America

• Breton: Ledenez Yucatán
• Bulgarian: Юката́н (Jukatán)
• Catalan: Península de Yucatán
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尤卡坦半岛 (zh) (Yóukǎtǎn Bàndǎo), 猶加敦半島 / 犹加敦半岛 (Yóujiādūn Bàndǎo)

• Czech: Yucatán
• Danish: Yucatán-halvøen
• Dutch: Yucatán
• Esperanto: Jukatano
• Estonian: Yucatáni poolsaar
• Finnish: Jukatanin niemimaa
• French: Péninsule du Yucatán
• Galician: Península do Iucatán
• Georgian: იუკატანი (iuḳaṭani)
• German: Yucatán (de)
• Hebrew: חצי האי יוקטן
• Ido: Yukatan-peninsulo
• Japanese: ユカタン半島 (Yukatan-hantō)
• Korean: 유카탄 반도 (yukatan bando)
• Lithuanian: Jukatano pusiasalis
• Macedonian: Ју́катан m (Júkatan)
• Marathi: युकातान (yukātān)
• Nahuatl: Tlālyacatl Yucatán
• Norwegian: Yucatán
• Persian: شبه‌جزیره یوکاتان
• Polish: Półwysep Jukatan (pl)
• Portuguese: Península de Iucatã (Brazil), Península do Iucatão (Portugal)
• Quechua: Yukatan yaqa wat'a
• Russian: Юката́н (ru) (Jukatán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јукатан

  Roman: Jukatan, Yucatan

• Slovak: Yucatánsky polostrov
• Spanish: Península de Yucatán f
• Swedish: Yucatánhalvön c
• Ukrainian: Юката́н m (Jukatán)
• Urdu: جزیرہ نما یوکاتان

a state in Mexico

• Arabic: وِلَايَة يُوكَاتَان (wilāya(t) yūkātān)
• Basque: Yucatan
• Bulgarian: Юкатан (Jukatan)
• Catalan: Yucatán
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尤卡坦州

• Cornish: Yucatán
• Danish: Yucatán
• Dutch: Yucatán
• Esperanto: Jukatanio
• Estonian: Yucatán
• Finnish: Yucatán (fi)
• French: Yucatán (fr)
• Galician: Estado de Iucatán
• German: Yucatán (de)
• Indonesian: Yucatán
• Italian: Yucatán
• Japanese: ユカタン州 (Yukatan-shū)
• Latin: Iucatania
• Lithuanian: Jukatanas m, Jukatano valstija f
• Macedonian: Ју́катан m (Júkatan)
• Marathi: युकातान n (yukātān)
• Nahuatl: Yucatán
• Norwegian: Yucatán
• Persian: یوکاتان
• Piedmontese: Yucatán
• Polish: Jukatan (pl)
• Portuguese: Iucatã (pt) (Brazil), Iucatão (pt) (Portugal)
• Romanian: Yucatán
• Russian: Юката́н (ru) (Jukatán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јукатан

  Roman: Jukatan, Yucatán

• Spanish: Yucatán (es)
• Turkish: Yucatán
• Ukrainian: Юката́н (Jukatán)
• Yucatec Maya: Yúukatan

Czech

Proper noun

Yucatán m inan

1. Yucatán (a state of Mexico)

Declension

Declension of Yucatán (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Yucatán
genitive	Yucatánu
dative	Yucatánu
accusative	Yucatán
vocative	Yucatáne
locative	Yucatánu
instrumental	Yucatánem

Spanish

Etymology

From Tabasco Chontal Yokot'an.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝukaˈtan/ [ɟ͡ʝu.kaˈt̪ãn]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝukaˈtan/ [ɟ͡ʝu.kaˈt̪ãn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃukaˈtan/ [ʃu.kaˈt̪ãn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒukaˈtan/ [ʒu.kaˈt̪ãn]

• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: Yu‧ca‧tán

Proper noun

Yucatán m

1. a state of Mexico
2. a peninsula in Mexico

Related terms

• yucateco

Turkish

Proper noun

Yucatán

1. Yucatán (a state of Mexico)