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Ecuador
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ecuador
English
thumb|The location of Ecuador
Etymology
en :bor es:Ecuador 1
en es Ecuador, itself from es ecuador equator.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɛk.wə.dɔː/ RP
en /ˈɛk.wə.doː/ SSB
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Ecuador.wav SSB
en /ˈɛk.wə.dɔɹ/ US
en en-us-Ecuador.ogg US
en /ˈek.wə.doː/ AU,NZ
en /ˈɛk.wə.dɔɾ/ Scotland
Proper noun
en Q736en country cont/South America Quito Republic of Ecuador.
en Anna Cooban Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/business/javier-milei-argentina-dollerization-explainer 2023-10-23 Economists at Capital Economics wrote in an August note that dollarized countries El Salvador, Panama and Ecuador show “markedly lower inflation than elsewhere in the region.” https://web.archive.org/web/20260130062742/https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/business/javier-milei-argentina-dollerization-explainer 30 January 2026
Derived terms
en Ecuadoran Ecuadorean Ecuadorian
Translations
Q736 country in South America
Abkhaz: ab Екәадор
Afrikaans: af Ecuador
Albanian: sq Ekuador m indefinite, sq Ekuadori m definite
Amharic: am ኤክዋዶር
Arabic: ar إِكْوَادُور f ʔekwadōr, ar الإِكْوَادُور f al-ʔekwadōr
Hijazi Arabic: acw الإكوادور f al-ʔikwādōr
Armenian: hy Էկվադոր
Asturian: ast Ecuador m, ast L'Ecuador
Azerbaijani: az Ekvador
Basque: eu Ekuador
Belarusian: be Эквадо́р m
Bengali: bn ইকুয়েডর
Breton: br Ecuador
Bulgarian: bg Еквадо́р m
Burmese: my အီကွေဒေါ
Catalan: ca Equador m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 厄瓜多爾 aak1 gwaa1 do1 ji5
Mandarin: cmn 厄瓜多爾 Èguāduō'ěr, cmn 厄瓜多 Èguāduō
Czech: cs Ekvádor m
Danish: da Ecuador n
Dhivehi: dv އިކުއެޑޯރު
Dutch: nl Ecuador n
Esperanto: eo Ekvadoro
Estonian: et Ecuador
Faroese: fo Ekvador
Finnish: fi Ecuador
French: fr Équateur m
Galician: gl Ecuador
Georgian: ka ეკვადორი
German: de Ecuador n
Greek: el Ισημερινός m, el Εκουαδόρ n
Hebrew: he אקוודור f ekvadór אקוודור / אֶקְוָדוֹר
Hindi: hi इक्वाडोर m, hi इक्वेडोर m, hi एक्वाडोर m, hi ईक्वाडोर
Hungarian: hu Ecuador
Icelandic: is Ekvador n
Ido: io Equador
Indonesian: id Ekuador
Interlingua: ia Ecuador
Irish: ga Eacuadór
Italian: it Ecuador m
Japanese: ja エクアドル Ekuadoru
Kazakh: kk Эквадор
Khmer: km អេក្វាទ័រ
Korean: ko ^에콰도르, ko ^에꽈도르 North Korea
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Ekuador
Kyrgyz: ky Эквадор
Lao: lo ເອກົວເຕີ
Latvian: lv Ekvadora f
Lithuanian: lt Ekvadoras m
Macedonian: mk Еквадо́р m
Malagasy: mg Ekoatera
Malay: ms Ecuador
Maltese: mt Ekwador
Māori: mi Ekuatoa
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Эквадор
Navajo: nv Kéyah Nahasdzáán Ałníiʼgi Siʼánígíí
Nepali: ne इक्वेडोर
Norman: nrf Êquateur m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Ecuador n
Occitan: oc Equator m, oc Eqüator m
Odia: or ଏକୁଆଡୋର
Ossetian: os Эквадор
Pashto: ps اېکوادور m ekwādor, ps اکوادور m ekwādor
Persian: fa اکوادور ekvâdor
Polish: pl Ekwador m-in
Portuguese: pt Equador m
Quechua: qu Ikwadur
Romanian: ro Ecuador n
Russian: ru Эквадо́р m
Sanskrit: sa एक्वाडोर
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ѐква̄дор m
Latin: sh Èkvādor m
Sinhalese: si ඉක්වදෝරය
Slovak: sk Ekvádor m
Slovene: sl Ekvador m
Spanish: es Ecuador m
Sranan Tongo: srn Ekwador
Swahili: sw Ecuador
Swedish: sv Ecuador
Tagalog: tl Ekwador
Tajik: tg Экуадор
Tatar: tt Эквадор
Thai: th เอกวาดอร์
Tibetan: bo ཨེ་ཁོའོ་ཌོར
Tigrinya: ti ኤኳዶር
Turkish: tr Ekvador
Turkmen: tk Ekwador
Ukrainian: uk Еквадо́р m
Urdu: ur ایکواڈور m īkvāḍor, ekvāḍor
Uyghur: ug ئېكۋادور
Uzbek: uz Ekvador
Vietnamese: vi Ê-cu-a-đo
Volapük: vo Lekvadorän
Yiddish: yi עקוואַדאָר n
See also
Further reading
Asturian
ast:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
ast Ecuador Q736
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Proper noun
nch proper noun
nch Ecuador Q736
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
nhn proper noun
nhn Ecuador Q736
Danish
Proper noun
da Ecuador Q736
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from nl es Ecuador.
Pronunciation
nl /ˈeː.kʋaːˌdɔr/ /ˌeː.kʋaːˈdɔr/
nl Nl-Ecuador.ogg Netherlands
nl Ecua dor
Proper noun
n
nl Ecuador Q736
Derived terms
nl Ecuadoraan
Finnish
fi:
Etymology
From fi es Ecuador.
Pronunciation
ekuador
Proper noun
fi Ecuador Q736
Declension
sg Ecuador a 0
Synonyms
fi Ecuadorin tasavalta official name
Derived terms
fi ecuadorilainen
fi compounds ecuadorinkalansyöjärotta ecuadorinpiikkihiiri
Galician
gl:
Alternative forms
gl Equador reintegrationist
Proper noun
m
gl Ecuador Q736
Related terms
gl ecuatoriano
German
de:
Alternative forms
de Ekuador
Pronunciation
de /eku̯aˈdoːr/ [(ʔ)e.kʋaˈdoːɐ̯] [-ˈdɔɐ̯] less often /ˈɛku̯aˌdoːr/ /ˈeːku̯aˌdoːr/ [ˈʔɛ.kʋaˌdoːɐ̯] [ˈʔeː-] [-ˌdɔɐ̯] uncommon [-ku.a-]
Since the pronunciation with vocalic [u] is uncommon, one can also transcribe /v/ instead of /u̯/ (as in de Äquator).
de De-Ecuador.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de oːɐ̯ 3
Proper noun
toponym
de Ecuador Q736
Derived terms
de Ecuadorianer
de ecuadorianisch
Related terms
de Äquator
Hungarian
hu:
Pronunciation
ekvádor
hu or 3
hu Ecua dor
E cua dor
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu Ecuador Q736 hu:Ecuadori Köztársaság
Declension
Ecuadoro o - sgEcuador ai sg
Derived terms
hu ecuadori
See also
Italian
it:
Pronunciation
Ècuador,#!Ecuadòr<r:DiPI>
Proper noun
m
it Ecuador Q736
Derived terms
it ecuadoriano
it ecuadoregno
References
Norwegian Bokmål
no:
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb Ecuador Q736
Related terms
nb ecuadorianer
nb ecuadoriansk
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Ecuador Q736
Related terms
nn ecuadorianar
nn ecuadoriansk
Portuguese
Proper noun
m
pt Equador: pt Ecuador Q736
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es :from ecuador 1
From es ecuador equator.
Pronunciation
+<audio:Es-Ecuador.ogg<a:Peru><text:Ecuador; capital: Quito>>
Proper noun
m
es Ecuador Q736
Usage notes
The definite article is optional when referring to Ecuador in Spanish (i.e. el Ecuador). It is mostly used in Ecuador.
Related terms
es ecuatoriano
Descendants
ja エクアドル 1 Ekuadoru
tl Ekwadór 1
See also
Anagrams
es acuerdo recaudo
Swedish
sv:
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Ecuador.wav
Proper noun
n
sv Ecuador Q736
Derived terms
sv ecuadorian
sv ecuadoriansk
sv ecuadorianska
See also
References
saol
Svensk MeSH
Tatar
Proper noun
proper noun l
tt Ekvador tt Ecuador Q736
tt 2006-10-15 tt:Ali Ğilmi tt:Ecuadorda prezident saylawları. Könyaq Amerikanıñ bu ilendä dä xakimiätkä sulçı kilergä mömkin lw:tt:Azatlıq radiosı https://www.azatliq.org/a/742495.html Könyaq Amerikanıñ Ecuador ilendä bügen prezident saylawları. Today is the presidential election in the South American country of Ecuador. https://web.archive.org/web/20260406071253/https://www.azatliq.org/a/742495.html 6 April 2026
Declension
nıñ ga nı da dan
Western Huasteca Nahuatl
Proper noun
nhw proper noun
nhw Ecuador Q736