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Costa Rican
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costarican
English
Etymology
en :af Costa Rica -an + 1
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Costa Rican.wav Southern England
Noun
A person from Costa Rica or of Costa Rican descent.
Translations
person from Costa Rica
Asturian: ast costarricanu m, ast costarricana f
Azerbaijani: az kostarikalı
Bulgarian: bg костариканец, bg костариканка f, bg костариканци p
Catalan: ca costa-riqueny m, ca costa-riquenya f
Czech: cs Kostaričan m
Dutch: nl Costa Ricaan m, nl Costa Ricaanse f
Esperanto: eo kostarikano
Finnish: fi costaricalainen
French: fr Costaricien m, fr Costaricienne f
Galician: gl costarriqueño m
Georgian: ka კოსტარიკელი
German: de Costa-Ricaner m, de Costa-Ricanerin f
Greek: el Κοσταρικανός m, el Κοσταρικανή f
Irish: ga Cósta Ríceach m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb costaricaner m, nb kostarikaner m
Nynorsk: nn costarican m, nn costaricanar m, nn kostarikan m, nn kostarikanar m
Polish: pl Kostarykanin m, pl Kostarykanka f
Portuguese: pt costa-riquenho m, pt costa-riquense m
Romanian: ro costarican m, ro costaricană f
Russian: ru костарика́нец m, ru костарика́нка f, ru коста-рика́нец m, ru коста-рика́нка f
Serbo-Croatian: sh Kostarikanac m, sh Kostarikanka f
Spanish: es costarricense m, es costarriqueño m, es tico m colloquial
Swahili: sw Mkostarika
Turkish: tr Kosta Rikalı
Yiddish: yi קאָסטאַריקאַנער m, yi קאָסטאַריקאַנערין f
Adjective
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Of, from, or pertaining to Costa Rica.
en He has a home in the Costa Rican hills.
Of or pertaining to the people, language, or culture of Costa Rica.
en His dialect was distinctly Costa Rican.
en Amarachi Orie Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/science/danish-slave-ships-costa-rica-intl-scli 2025-05-02 Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores. https://web.archive.org/web/20250517090403/https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/science/danish-slave-ships-costa-rica-intl-scli
Translations
pertaining to Costa Rica
Asturian: ast costarricanu
Catalan: ca costa-riqueny
Czech: cs kostarický
Dutch: nl Costa Ricaans
Finnish: fi costaricalainen
Galician: gl costarriqueño
German: de costa-ricanisch
Hungarian: hu Costa Rica-i
Irish: ga Cósta Ríceach
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb costaricansk, nb kostarikansk
Nynorsk: nn costaricansk, nn kostarikansk
Polish: pl kostarykański
Portuguese: pt costa-riquenho, pt costa-riquense
Romanian: ro costarican
Russian: ru костарика́нский, ru коста-рика́нский
Spanish: es costarricense, es costarriqueño, es tico colloquial
Swahili: sw Kikostarika
Swedish: sv costaricansk
en Nationalities
Finnish
Proper noun
fi proper noun form Costa Rican
fi Costa Rica gen s