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Nicaragua
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Nicarágua
English
simple:
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Etymology
en es Nicaragua, from en Nicarao es:agua a native name water.
Pronunciation
en /ˌnɪk.əˈɹæɡ.ju.ə/ UK
en /ˌnɪk.əˈɹɑ.ɡwə/ /ˌnik.əˈɹɑ.ɡwə/ GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Nicaragua.wav UK
en en-us-Nicaragua.ogg US
Proper noun
en Q811en country r/Central America Republic of Nicaragua. Capitalː Managua.
en Adam Pourahmadi and Avery Schmitz Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/americas/nicaragua-ban-church-organization-civil-society-intl-latam 2024-08-19 Civil liberties in Nicaragua have shrunk dramatically under the longtime leadership of authoritarian President Daniel Ortega, who claimed a fifth term in 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20240922181905/https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/americas/nicaragua-ban-church-organization-civil-society-intl-latam/ 22 September 2024
A lake in Nicaragua, the largest freshwater lake in Central America.
Related terms
en Nicaraguan
en Nicaragua wood
en Nicaraguan Revolution
Translations
Q811 a country in Central America
Abkhaz: ab Никарагуа
Afrikaans: af Nicaragua
Albanian: sq Nikaraguaja f
Amharic: am ኒካራጓ
Arabic: ar نِيكَارَاجُوَا f nīkārāguwā, ar نِيكَارَاغُوَا f
Armenian: hy Նիկարագուա
Asturian: ast Nicaragua
Azerbaijani: az Nikaraqua
Bashkir: ba Никарагуа
Basque: eu Nikaragua
Belarusian: be Нікара́гуа f
Bengali: bn নিকারাগুয়া
Breton: br Nicaragua
Bulgarian: bg Никара́гуа f
Burmese: my နီကာရာဂွါ
Catalan: ca Nicaragua f
Chechen: ce Никарагуа
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 尼加拉瓜 Níjiālāguā
Czech: cs Nikaragua f
Danish: da Nicaragua n
Dhivehi: dv ނިކަރާގުއާ
Dutch: nl Nicaragua n
Esperanto: eo Nikaragvo
Estonian: et Nicaragua
Finnish: fi Nicaragua
French: fr Nicaragua m
Georgian: ka ნიკარაგუა
German: de Nicaragua n
Greek: el Νικαράγουα f
Hebrew: he נִיקָרָגוּאָה f nikaragua
Hindi: hi निकारागुआ m
Hungarian: hu Nicaragua
Icelandic: is Níkaragva n, is Nikaragúa n
Indonesian: id Nikaragua
Interlingua: ia Nicaragua
Italian: it Nicaragua m
Japanese: ja ニカラグア Nikaragua
Kalenjin: kln Nikaragwa
Kamba: kam Nikaragwa
Kazakh: kk Никарагуа
Khmer: km នីការ៉ាហ្គ័រ
Kikuyu: ki Nikaragwa
Korean: ko ^니카라과, ko ^니까라과 North Korea
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Nîkaragua
Kyrgyz: ky Никарагуа
Lao: lo ນີກາຣາກົວ
Latvian: lv Nikaragva f
Lithuanian: lt Nikaragva f
Luhya: luy Nikaragwa
Luo: luo Nikaragwa
Macedonian: mk Никара́гва f
Malay: ms Nicaragua
Māori: mi Nikarāhua
Meru: mer Nikaragwa
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Никарагуа
Norman: nrf Nicaragua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Nicaragua n
Nynorsk: nn Nicaragua n
Occitan: oc Nicaragua f, oc Nicaragüa f
Pashto: ps نیکاراگوا f nīkārāgwā
Persian: fa نیکاراگوئه nikârâgu'e
Polish: pl Nikaragua f
Portuguese: pt Nicarágua f
Romanian: ro Nicaragua f
Russian: ru Никара́гуа f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Никара̀гва f
Latin: sh Nikaràgva f
Sinhalese: si නිකරගුවා
Slovak: sk Nikaragua f
Slovene: sl Nikaragva f
Spanish: es Nicaragua f
Sranan Tongo: srn Nikaragwa
Swahili: sw Nikaragwa
Swedish: sv Nicaragua n
Tagalog: tl Nikaragwa
Tajik: tg Никарагуа
Tamil: ta நிக்கராகுவா
Tatar: tt Никарагуа
Thai: th นิการากัว
Tibetan: bo ནི་ཀ་ར་གུ་ཝ
Tigrinya: ti ኒካራጓ
Turkish: tr Nikaragua
Turkmen: tk Nikaragua
Ukrainian: uk Нікара́гуа f
Urdu: ur نکاراگوا m nikārāguā
Uyghur: ug نىكاراگۇئا
Uzbek: uz Nikaragua
Vietnamese: vi Ni-ca-ra-goa
Welsh: cy Nicaragwa
Yiddish: yi ניקאַראַגואַ
Yoruba: yo Nikarágúà
See also
en Managua
Asturian
ast:
Proper noun
ast proper noun
ast Nicaragua Q811
Derived terms
ast nicaraguanu
Catalan
ca:
Pronunciation
ca LL-Q7026 (cat)-Millars-Nicaragua.wav Valencia
Proper noun
f
ca Nicaragua Q811
Derived terms
ca nicaragüenc
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Proper noun
nch proper noun
nch Nicaragua Q811
Danish
da:
Proper noun
da proper noun
da Nicaragua Q811
Related terms
da nicaraguaner
da nicaraguansk
Dutch
nl:
Pronunciation
nl Nl-Nicaragua.ogg
Proper noun
n
nl Nicaragua Q811
Finnish
fi:
Etymology
From fi es Nicaragua.
Pronunciation
nikaragua
Proper noun
fi Nicaragua Q811
Declension
sg Nicaragu a
Derived terms
fi nicaragualainen
fi compounds nicaraguantaskurotta
German
de:
Alternative forms
de Nikaragua
Pronunciation
de /nikaˈʁaːɡua/
de De-Nicaragua.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
toponym
de Nicaragua Q811
Derived terms
de Nicaraguaner
de nicaraguanisch
de Nicaraguasee
Hungarian
hu:
Pronunciation
nikaragua
hu Ni ca ra gua
hu ɒ 5
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu Nicaragua Q811 hu:Nicaraguai Köztársaság
Declension
Nicaraguá o sgNicaraguá sg
Derived terms
hu nicaraguai
See also
Italian
it:
Pronunciation
Nicaràgua
Proper noun
f
it Nicaragua Q811
Derived terms
it nicaraguense
Latin
la:
Pronunciation
Nicaragua yes
Proper noun
Nicaragua<1>
la New Latin la Nicaragua Q811
Declension
Nicaragua<1>
Norwegian Bokmål
nb:
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb Nicaragua Q811
Related terms
nb nicaraguaner
nb nicaraguansk
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Nicaragua Q811
Related terms
nn nicaraguan, nn nicaraguanar
nn nicaraguansk
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es. One theory is that it was coined by Spanish colonists based upon the name of the local chief at that time, nci Nicarao Nicarao + es 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.)
Pronunciation
+<audio:Es-mx-Nicaragua.ogg<a:Mexico>>
Proper noun
f
es Nicaragua Q811
es Maxime Tamsett Arrestan a más de 100 personas en “operación de control” migratorio en un sitio de construcción en Florida, según HSI w:CNN en Español https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/05/30/eeuu/arrestan-100-personas-operacion-control-migratorio-florida-trax 2025-05-30 Los detenidos eran “de México, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia y Honduras”, de acuerdo con la publicación de HSI Tampa. https://web.archive.org/web/20250720000116/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/05/30/eeuu/arrestan-100-personas-operacion-control-migratorio-florida-trax 20 July 2025
Derived terms
es nica nicaragüense nicaragüeño
Swedish
sv:
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Nicaragua.wav
Proper noun
n
sv Nicaragua Q811
Derived terms
sv nicaraguan
sv nicaraguansk
sv nicaraguanska
See also
Further reading
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