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Azores
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azores azorés
English
Etymology
en es Azores, from en pt Açores Azores, from pt açores, plural of pt açor goshawk.
Pronunciation
en /əˈzɔːz/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Azores.wav Southern England
en /ˈeɪzɔːɹz/ US
en ɔː(ɹ)z 2
Proper noun
the Azores p
en Q25263 en archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the ocean/Atlantic Ocean.
en 1823 1704 The Whole History of Navigation from Its Original to this Time. (1704.). Prefixed to Churchill's Collection of Voyages 388 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Whole_History_of_Navigation_from_Its/VX1MAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22are+near+about%22&pg=PA388&printsec=frontcover An. 1449. Gonsalo Vello discovered the islands called Azores, or of Hawks, because many of those birds were seen about them. They are eight in number, viz. S. Michael, S. Mary, Jesus or Tercera, Graciosa, Pico, Fayal, Flores, and Corvo. They are near about the latitude of Lisbon. In the last of them was found the statue of a man on horseback with a cloak, but no hat, his left hand on the horse's mane, the right pointing to the west, and some characters carved on the rock under it, but not understood.
en autonomous region c/Portugal in the ocean/North Atlantic officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
Meronyms
en São Miguel
en Santa Maria
en Terceira
en São Jorge
en Graciosa
en Pico
en Faial
en Flores
en Corvo
Holonyms
en Macaronesia
Derived terms
en Azorean Azores laurel azorite
Translations
an archipelago and an autonomous region
Arabic: ar اَلْأَزُور
Hijazi Arabic: acw الأزور f-p al-ʔazōr
Armenian: hy Ազորյան կղզիներ p, hy Ազորներ p
Catalan: ca Açores m-p
Cherokee: chr ᎠᏐᎴᏏ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 亞速爾群島 Yàsù'ěr qúndǎo
Czech: cs Azory f-p
Danish: da Azorerne p, da Acorerne p
Dutch: nl Azoren
Esperanto: eo Acoroj p
Farefare: gur Azɔa p
Finnish: fi Azorit
French: fr Açores les Açores f-p
Galician: gl Azores m-p
Georgian: ka აზორის კუნძულები
German: de Azoren die Azoren f-p
Greek: el Αζόρες f-p
Hindi: hi अज़ोरेस
Hungarian: hu Azori-szigetek
Icelandic: is Asoreyjar f-p
Interlingua: ia Azores p le Azores
Irish: ga Asóir m na hAsóir
Italian: it Azzorre f-p le Azzorre
Japanese: ja アゾレス諸島 Azoresu-shotō
Korean: ko ^아조레스 제도
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Asorene, Riksmål nb Azorene
Nynorsk: nn Asorane
Polish: pl Azory p
Portuguese: pt Açores m-p
Russian: ru Азо́рские острова́ m-p, ru Азо́ры p
Spanish: es Azores f-p las Azores
Swedish: sv Azorerna p
Volapük: vo Lazoruäns
Further reading
Anagrams
en aeorsz Erazos
en exonyms
Interlingua
Proper noun
ia proper noun le Azores p
the en Azores
Spanish
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
f-p
the en Azores
es Fuimos a las Azores. We went to the Azores.
es Islands Portugal
es exonyms