Nicaragua

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish Nicaragua, from Nicarao (“a native name”) +‎ Spanish agua (“water”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˌnɪk.əˈɹæɡ.ju.ə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌnɪk.əˈɹɑ.ɡwə/, /ˌnik.əˈɹɑ.ɡwə/ === Proper noun === Nicaragua A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Nicaragua. Capitalː Managua. A lake in Nicaragua, the largest freshwater lake in Central America. ==== Related terms ==== Nicaraguan Nicaragua wood Nicaraguan Revolution ==== Translations ==== === See also === Managua == Asturian == === Proper noun === Nicaragua Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Derived terms ==== nicaraguanu == Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ni.kəˈɾa.ɣwə] IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ni.kaˈɾa.ɣwa] === Proper noun === Nicaragua f Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Derived terms ==== nicaragüenc == Central Huasteca Nahuatl == === Proper noun === Nicaragua Nicaragua (a country in Central America) == Danish == === Proper noun === Nicaragua Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Related terms ==== nicaraguaner nicaraguansk == Dutch == === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === Nicaragua ? n Nicaragua (a country in Central America) == Finnish == === Etymology === From Spanish Nicaragua. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈnikɑrɑɡuɑ/, [ˈnikɑ̝ˌrɑ̝ɡuɑ̝] Rhymes: -ɑɡuɑ === Proper noun === Nicaragua Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== == German == === Alternative forms === Nikaragua === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nikaˈʁaːɡua/ === Proper noun === Nicaragua n (proper noun, genitive Nicaraguas or (optionally with an article) Nicaragua) Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Derived terms ==== Nicaraguaner nicaraguanisch Nicaraguasee == Hungarian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈnikɒrɒɡuɒ] Hyphenation: Ni‧ca‧ra‧gua Rhymes: -ɒ === Proper noun === Nicaragua Nicaragua (a country in Central America; official name: Nicaraguai Köztársaság) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== nicaraguai === See also === == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ni.kaˈra.ɡwa/ Rhymes: -aɡwa Hyphenation: Ni‧ca‧rà‧gua === Proper noun === Nicaragua f Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Derived terms ==== nicaraguense == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nɪ.kaˈra.ɡu.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ni.kaˈraː.ɡu.a] === Proper noun === Nicaragua f sg (genitive Nicaraguae); first declension (New Latin) Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, singular only. == Norwegian Bokmål == === Proper noun === Nicaragua Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Related terms ==== nicaraguaner nicaraguansk == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Proper noun === Nicaragua Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Related terms ==== nicaraguan, nicaraguanar nicaraguansk == Spanish == === Etymology === Unknown. One theory is that it was coined by Spanish colonists based upon the name of the local chief at that time, Classical Nahuatl Nicarao (“Nicarao”) + agua (“water”). Another is that it may have meant ‘surrounded by water’ in an indigenous language. (This could either be a reference to its two large freshwater lakes, Lake Nicaragua and Lake Managua, or to the fact that it bounded on the east and the west by oceans.) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nikaˈɾaɡwa/ [ni.kaˈɾa.ɣ̞wa] Rhymes: -aɡwa Syllabification: Ni‧ca‧ra‧gua === Proper noun === Nicaragua f Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Derived terms ==== == Swedish == === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === Nicaragua n (genitive Nicaraguas) Nicaragua (a country in Central America) ==== Derived terms ==== nicaraguan nicaraguansk nicaraguanska ==== See also ==== === Further reading === “Nicaragua”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024) Svensk MeSH