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Havana
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havana
English
Etymology
en :der es:La Habana 1
From en es La Habana, from Habaguanex, the native American chief (cacique) who controlled the area, the name derived from en tnq sabana savannah. The letter h may be an anthroponymic inflection. en
Pronunciation
en /həˈvæ.nə/ RP
en /həˈvæ.nə/ /-ˈvɑː-/ GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Havana.wav Southern England
en ænə 3
en Ha va na
Proper noun
en Q1563 en capital city c/Cuba.
en December 2019/January 2020 Wayne Curtis Discover Cuba’s Other Rum Cocktail: El Presidente w:Garden & Gun https://gardenandgun.com/recipe/el-presidente-rum-cocktail-recipe/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210815231520/https://gardenandgun.com/recipe/el-presidente-rum-cocktail-recipe/ It was notable enough that when President Calvin Coolidge visited Havana in 1928, Cuba’s president offered him one at the presidential palace.
en metonym The Cuban government.
en city/county seat co/Mason County s/Illinois c/USA.
en minor city co/Montgomery County s/Kansas c/USA.
Derived terms
en Havanan Havanese Little Havana
Translations
capital city of Cuba
Amharic: am አባና ābana, am ሀቫና hāvana
Antillean Creole: gcf La Avann f, gcf Avann f
Arabic: ar هَافَانَا f
Armenian: hy Հավանա
Asturian: ast L'Habana
Belarusian: be Гава́на f
Bengali: bn হাভানা
Bulgarian: bg Хава́на f
Burmese: my ဟာဗားနား
Catalan: ca L'Havana
Chamorro: ch havanaea
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 哈瓦那
Corsican: co L'Avana f
Czech: cs Havana f
Danish: da Havana
Esperanto: eo Havano
Finnish: fi Havanna
French: fr La Havane f
Georgian: ka ჰავანა
German: de Havanna f
Greek: el Αβάνα f
Haitian Creole: ht La Avàn
Hebrew: he הוואנה
Hindi: hi हवाना m
Hungarian: hu Havanna
Italian: it Avana f L'Avana, it Havana f L'Havana
Japanese: ja ハバナ Habana
Khmer: km ហាវ៉ាណា
Korean: ko ^아바나, ko ^라 ^아바나
Latin: la Avana
Lithuanian: lt Havana f
Lucumí: luq Ilú Pupu Ilé
Luxembourgish: lb Havanna
Macedonian: mk Хава́на f
Maltese: mt Ħavana il-Ħavana
Marathi: mr हव्हाना n
Persian: fa هاوانا hâvânâ
Polish: pl Hawana f
Portuguese: pt Havana f
Russian: ru Гава́на f
Sardinian: sc S'Avana f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Хава̀на f
Latin: sh Havàna f
Sicilian: scn L'Avana f
Spanish: es La Habana f
Swedish: sv Havanna
Telugu: te హవానా
Thai: th ฮาวานา
Turkish: tr Havana
Ukrainian: uk Гава́на f
Urdu: ur ہوانا m havānā
Uyghur: ug ھاۋانا
Vietnamese: vi La Ha-ba-na, vi Ha-va-na
Noun
A type of large cigar produced in Cuba.
en Havanna<q:dated> Havannah<q:dated>
Having indicated an arm-chair to me and placed my refreshment near it, he handed me a long, smooth Havana.
Translations
cigar
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 哈瓦那雪茄 Hāwǎnà xuějiā
Finnish: fi havannalainen, fi havannasikari
Greek: el πούρα Αβάνας
Indonesian: id havana
Italian: it avana m
Macedonian: mk ха́ванска пу́ра f
Marathi: mr हवाना f
Portuguese: pt havana m
Spanish: es habano m
References
en terms derived from toponyms exonyms
Czech
cs:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f havanský Havaňan
cs Havana Q1563
Declension
f.sg
Further reading
Finnish
Etymology
fi :der ru:Фофан
From a vernacular form of fi ru Фофан.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Finnish
Declension
Havan a
Statistics
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References
Lithuanian
lt basic stub
lt:
Proper noun
f
lt Havana Q1563
Portuguese
pt:
Pronunciation
pt havana
pt ɐnɐ 3
pt Ha va na
Proper noun
f
pt Havana Q1563
Derived terms
pt havana havanês havano
Slovak
sk:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f Havany žena
sk Havana Q1563
References