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Nicaragua
Nicaragua
See also: Nicarágua
English
Proper noun
Nicaragua
- Country in Central America; official name: Republic of Nicaragua.
Related terms
Translations
a country in Central America
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See also
- Managua
- (countries of Central America) country of Central America; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama (Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of Central America)
Finnish
Proper noun
Nicaragua
Declension
| Inflection of Nicaragua (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Nicaragua | — | |
| genitive | Nicaraguan | — | |
| partitive | Nicaraguaa | — | |
| illative | Nicaraguaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Nicaragua | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Nicaragua | — |
| gen. | Nicaraguan | ||
| genitive | Nicaraguan | — | |
| partitive | Nicaraguaa | — | |
| inessive | Nicaraguassa | — | |
| elative | Nicaraguasta | — | |
| illative | Nicaraguaan | — | |
| adessive | Nicaragualla | — | |
| ablative | Nicaragualta | — | |
| allative | Nicaragualle | — | |
| essive | Nicaraguana | — | |
| translative | Nicaraguaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Nicaraguatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
Derived terms
German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nikaˈʁaːɡua/
Proper noun
Nicaragua n (genitive Nicaraguas)
Derived terms
- Nicaraguaner
- Nicaraguanerin
- nicaraguanisch
- Nicaraguasee
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈnikɒrɒɡuɒ]
- Hyphenation: Ni‧ca‧ra‧gua
Proper noun
Nicaragua
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Nicaragua | — |
| accusative | Nicaraguát | — |
| dative | Nicaraguának | — |
| instrumental | Nicaraguával | — |
| causal-final | Nicaraguáért | — |
| translative | Nicaraguává | — |
| terminative | Nicaraguáig | — |
| essive-formal | Nicaraguaként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Nicaraguában | — |
| superessive | Nicaraguán | — |
| adessive | Nicaraguánál | — |
| illative | Nicaraguába | — |
| sublative | Nicaraguára | — |
| allative | Nicaraguához | — |
| elative | Nicaraguából | — |
| delative | Nicaraguáról | — |
| ablative | Nicaraguától | — |
| Possessive forms of Nicaragua | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Nicaraguám | — |
| 2nd person sing. | Nicaraguád | — |
| 3rd person sing. | Nicaraguája | — |
| 1st person plural | Nicaraguánk | — |
| 2nd person plural | Nicaraguátok | — |
| 3rd person plural | Nicaraguájuk | — |
Derived terms
Latin
Proper noun
Nicaragua f (genitive Nicaraguae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | Nicaragua |
| genitive | Nicaraguae |
| dative | Nicaraguae |
| accusative | Nicaraguam |
| ablative | Nicaraguā |
| vocative | Nicaragua |
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Nicaragua
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Unknown. One theory is that it was coined by Spanish colonists based upon the name of the local chief at that time, 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.)
Proper noun
Nicaragua f