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Paraguay
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paraguay
English
Etymology
en :bor es:Paraguay 1
en es Paraguay, from en gn-cls Paraguaĭ Paraguay River, from gn-cls paraguâ<t:feather crown> ĭ<t:river> 1.
Pronunciation
en /ˈpæɹəɡwaɪ/ /ˈpæɹəɡweɪ/ RP
en /ˈpaɹəɡwɑj/ /ˈpaɹəɡwɛj/ SSB
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Paraguay.wav SSB /ˈpaɹəɡwɑj/
en US
en /ˈpæɹəɡweɪ/ /ˈpæɹəɡwaɪ/ nMmmm
en /ˈpɛɹəɡweɪ/ /ˈpɛɹəɡwaɪ/ Mmmm
păr′ə-gwā păr′ə-gwīPar·a·guay 592 1
pă′rə-gwā pă′rə-gwī pä-rä-gwī′Paraguay 1427 2
en en-us-Paraguay.ogg US /ˈpɛɹəɡweɪ/
en /ˈpaɾəɡwaɪ/ /ˈpaɾɹəɡwe/ Scotland
Proper noun
en Q733en country cont/South America Asunción Republic of Paraguay.
1670, Richard Blome, in “America, the Fourth Part” of A Geographical Description of the Four Parts of the World, 30:
Sanson in his Geographical Table hath divided this AMERICA MERIDIONALIS into PERUVIANA, and BRASLIANA [sic], subdividing Peruviana into Terra Firma, and Peru; and Brasiliana, into Brazile, and Paraguay; the first division is taken by a line which from the mouth of the Amazona, goes to seek the utmost part of Chili towards the South, ...
en Q179396 en river in South America that flows into the Paraná, through c/Brazil,Paraguay,Bolivia,Argentina the Paraguay River.
Derived terms
en Paraguayan
Related terms
Alto Paraguay
Translations
Q733 country in South America
Abkhaz: ab Парагәаи
Afrikaans: af Paraguay
Albanian: sq Paraguaj m indefinite, sq Paraguaji m definite
Amharic: am ፓራጓይ
Arabic: ar بَارَاجُوَاي f bārāguwāy, ar بَارَاغُوَاي f, ar بَرَغواي f barāḡuwāy, ar بَرَجواي f barāguwāy
Hijazi Arabic: acw باراقواي f bārāgwāy
Armenian: hy Պարագվայ
Asturian: ast Paraguay, ast Paraguái
Azerbaijani: az Paraqvay
Basque: eu Paraguai
Belarusian: be Парагва́й m
Bengali: bn প্যারাগুয়ে
Breton: br Paraguay
Bulgarian: bg Парагва́й m
Burmese: my ပာရာဂ္ဝေး
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 巴拉圭
Mandarin: cmn 巴拉圭 Bālāguī
Circassian:
West Circassian: ady Парагуай
Czech: cs Paraguay f
Danish: da Paraguay n
Dhivehi: dv ޕެރަގުއޭ
Dutch: nl Paraguay n
Esperanto: eo Paragvajo
Estonian: et Paraguay
Finnish: fi Paraguay
French: fr Paraguay m
Galician: gl Paraguai m
Georgian: ka პარაგვაი
German: de Paraguay n
Greek: el Παραγουάη f
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug Paraguái
Haitian Creole: ht Paragwe
Hebrew: he פרגואי f paragváy פרגוואי / פָּרַגְוַאי
Hindi: hi पैराग्वे m
Hungarian: hu Paraguay
Icelandic: is Paragvæ n
Indonesian: id Paraguay
Interlingua: ia Paraguay
Irish: ga Paragua
Italian: it Paraguay m
Japanese: ja パラグアイ Paraguai
Kalenjin: kln Paragwe
Kamba: kam Paragwe
Kazakh: kk Парагвай
Khmer: km ប៉ារ៉ាហ្គាយ
Kikuyu: ki Paragwe
Korean: ko ^파라과이, ko ^빠라과이 North Korea
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Paraguay
Kyrgyz: ky Парагвай
Lao: lo ປາລາກວາຍ pā lā kuāi, lo ປາຣາກວາຍ pā rā kuāi, lo ປຣາກວາຍ
Latvian: lv Paragvaja f
Lithuanian: lt Paragvajus m
Luhya: luy Paragwe
Luo: luo Paragwe
Macedonian: mk Парагвај m
Malay: ms Paraguay
Maltese: mt Paragwaj il-Paragwaj
Māori: mi Parakai
Meru: mer paragwe
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Парагвай
Norman: nrf Paraguay m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Paraguay n
Nynorsk: nn Paraguay n
Occitan: oc Paraguai m
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Параґвай m
Persian:
Dari: prs پَارَاگْوَای
Iranian Persian: fa-ira پاراگوئِه
Polish: pl Paragwaj m
Portuguese: pt Paraguai m
Romanian: ro Paraguay n
Russian: ru Парагва́й m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Па̏рагва̄ј m
Latin: sh Pȁragvāj m
Sinhalese: si පැරගුවේ
Slovak: sk Paraguaj m
Slovene: sl Paragvaj m
Spanish: es Paraguay m
Sranan Tongo: srn Paragwei
Swahili: sw Paragwai
Swedish: sv Paraguay n
Tajik: tg Парагвай
Tatar: tt Парагвай
Telugu: te పరగ్వే
Thai: th ปารากวัย
Tibetan: bo པ་ར་གུ་ཡེ
Turkish: tr Paraguay
Turkmen: tk Paragwaý
Ukrainian: uk Парагва́й m
Urdu: ur پَیراگْوئے m
Uyghur: ug پاراگۋاي
Uzbek: uz Paragvay
Vietnamese: vi Pa-ra-goay
Yiddish: yi פּאַראַגווײַ n
Yoruba: yo Paraguye
See also
References
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Proper noun
nch proper noun
nch Paraguay Q733
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
nhn proper noun
nhn Paraguay Q733
Czech
cs:
Pronunciation
Paragvaj
Proper noun
f paraguayský Paraguayec
cs Paraguay Q733
Declension
f.sg.soft
Further reading
Danish
Proper noun
da Paraguay Q733
Dutch
Pronunciation
nl Nl-Paraguay.ogg
Proper noun
n
nl Paraguay Q733
Finnish
fi:
Etymology
From fi es Paraguay.
Pronunciation
paraguai paragvai Pa.ra.gu.ay
Proper noun
fi Paraguay Q733
Declension
sg Paraguay a i
Derived terms
fi paraguaylainen paraguaynvyötiäinen
French
Pronunciation
Paragwai Paragwé Paragwa[j]
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Arthur Crbz-Paraguay.wav
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Paraguay.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Paraguay.wav France
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-Paraguay.wav <<France>> (<<Somain>>)
Proper noun
m
fr Paraguay Q733
Derived terms
fr Paraguayen
fr paraguayen
German
de:
Pronunciation
de /ˈpa(ː)raˌɡu̯aɪ̯/ [ˈpaʁaˌɡʋaɪ̯] [ˈpaːʁa-] [-ɡuˌaɪ̯]
de De-Paraguay.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
toponym
de Paraguay Q733
Derived terms
de Paraguayer
de paraguayisch
Further reading
Hungarian
hu:
Pronunciation
paragváj
hu Pa ra guay
hu aːj 3
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu Paraguay Q733 hu:Paraguayi Köztársaság
Declension
Paraguayo o - sg jParaguay ai sg
Derived terms
hu paraguayi
See also
Italian
it:
Etymology
it es Paraguay.
Pronunciation
Paraguày<r:DOP:lid#1064479>
Proper noun
m
it Paraguay Q733
Derived terms
it paraguaiano / it paraguayano
References
Norwegian Bokmål
no:
thumb|Flag of Paraguay
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb Paraguay Q733
Related terms
nb paraguayaner
nb paraguayansk
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Paraguay Q733
Related terms
nn paraguayan, nn paraguayanar
nn paraguayansk
Paraguayan Guarani
gn:
Etymology
gug :inh gn-cls:Paraguaĭ + 1 Paraguái
Pronunciation
gug /pa.ɾa.wa.ˈɨ/
gug ɨ 4
Proper noun
gug proper noun
gug Asunción Q2933
gug Paraguay Q179396
gug Paraguái
Usage notes
Paraguay is the name of Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. The name of the country is gug Paraguái.
References
+ 85 1
Portuguese
Proper noun
m
Paraguai 43 11
16 III — Parece que me enganei. Não foi na guerra do Paraguay, foi noutra mais velha. Não houve outra antes? Pois foi nessa. “It seems I was mistaken. It wasn’t in the Paraguayan war, but in a different, older one. Wasn’t there another before? Well, it was that one. ”
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es :bor gn-cls:Paraguaĭ + 1
Pronunciation
+<audio:Es-Paraguay.ogg<a:Peru><text:Paraguay; capital: Asunción>>
Proper noun
m paraguayo
es Paraguay Q733
es Francisco Xarque 1687 Insignes missioneros de la Compañia de Jesus en la Provincia del Paraguay XXXVIII Pamplona Juan Minòn 196 1 https://www.google.com.br/books/edition/Insignes_Missioneros_de_la_Compa%C3%B1ia_de/Nk5DAAAAcAAJ?hl=pt-BR&gbpv=1&dq=Paraguay&pg=PA196&printsec=frontcover Eſta codicia, de que los Indios les ſirvan à ſu interès, es la raiz de quantas perſecuciones padecieron entre los Eſpañoles del Paraguay el Padre Franciſco Diaz, y los demàs Jeſuitas, y cada dia brotan de ella nuevos encuentros, y nuevas murmuraciones contra los Padres de aquella nueva Chriſtianidad
es Paraguay Q179396
Usage notes
The definite article is optional when referring to Paraguay in Spanish (i.e. el Paraguay).
Derived terms
es guay del Paraguay jazmín del Paraguay paraguay paraguayismo
Related terms
es Uruguay
Descendants
en Paraguay 1
gug Paraguái 1
pt Paraguai 1
See also
Swedish
sv:
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Paraguay.wav
Proper noun
n
sv Paraguay Q733
Derived terms
sv paraguayan paraguayansk paraguayanska paraguayare paraguayo paraguaysk paraguayte
See also
Further reading
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Svensk MeSH
Turkish
tr:
Pronunciation
tr LL-Q256 (tur)-ToprakM-Paraguay.wav
Proper noun
tr Paraguay Q733
Declension
Paraguay Paraguay'ı Paraguay'a Paraguay'da Paraguay'dan Paraguay'ın
See also
Western Huasteca Nahuatl
Proper noun
nhw proper noun
nhw Paraguay Q733