Tegucigalpa

English

Etymology

From Spanish Tegucigalpa, from Classical Nahuatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˌɡuːsiˈɡælpə/

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Proper noun

Tegucigalpa

1. The capital city of Honduras.

Translations

capital of Honduras

• Arabic: تِيغُوسِيغَالْبَا f (tīḡūsīḡālbā)
• Armenian: Տեգուսիգալպա (Tegusigalpa)
• Belarusian: Тэгусіга́льпа f (Tehusihálʹpa)
• Bulgarian: Тегусига́лпа f (Tegusigálpa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特古西加爾巴／特古西加尔巴 (zh) (Tègǔxījiā'ěrbā)

• Czech: Tegucigalpa f
• Danish: Tegucigalpa
• Dutch: Tegucigalpa n
• Esperanto: Tegucigalpo (eo)
• French: Tegucigalpa (fr)
• Georgian: ტეგუსიგალპა (ṭegusigalṗa)
• German: Tegucigalpa (de) n
• Greek: Τεγουσιγάλπα f (Tegousigálpa)
• Hungarian: Tegucigalpa (hu)
• Italian: Tegucigalpa (it)
• Japanese: テグシガルパ (ja) (Tegushigarupa)
• Khmer: តេហ្គូស៊ីហ្កាល់ប៉ា (km) (teehkuusiihkalpaa)
• Korean: 테구시갈파 (Tegusigalpa)
• Macedonian: Тегусигалпа f (Tegusigalpa)
• Polish: Tegucigalpa (pl)
• Portuguese: Tegucigalpa f
• Romanian: Tegucigalpa (ro)
• Russian: Тегусига́льпа (ru) f (Tegusigálʹpa)
• Slovak: Tegucigalpa f
• Spanish: Tegucigalpa (es) f
• Swedish: Tegucigalpa (sv) n
• Tamil: டெகுசிகல்பா (ṭekucikalpā)
• Ukrainian: Тегусіга́льпа f (Tehusihálʹpa)
• Vietnamese: Tơ-gu-xi-ga-pa

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛɡusɪɡalpa]

Proper noun

Tegucigalpa f (related adjective tegucigalpský)

1. Tegucigalpa (the capital city of Honduras)

Declension

Declension of Tegucigalpa (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Tegucigalpa
genitive	Tegucigalpy
dative	Tegucigalpě
accusative	Tegucigalpu
vocative	Tegucigalpo
locative	Tegucigalpě
instrumental	Tegucigalpou

Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish Tegucigalpa, from Classical Nahuatl.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /te.ɡu.siˈɡaw.pɐ/ [te.ɡu.siˈɡaʊ̯.pɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /te.ɡu.siˈɡaw.pɐ/ [te.ɡu.siˈɡaʊ̯.pɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /te.ɡu.siˈɡaw.pa/ [te.ɡu.siˈɡaʊ̯.pa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨ.ɡu.siˈɡal.pɐ/ [tɨ.ɣu.siˈɣaɫ.pɐ]

Proper noun

Tegucigalpa f

1. Tegucigalpa (the capital city of Honduras)

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Tegucigalpa, from Classical Nahuatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈteɡut͡siɡalpa]

Proper noun

Tegucigalpa f (genitive singular Tegucigalpy, declension pattern of žena)

1. Tegucigalpa (the capital of Honduras)

References

• “Tegucigalpa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl, though the exact word is unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /teɡuθiˈɡalpa/ [t̪e.ɣ̞u.θiˈɣ̞al.pa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /teɡusiˈɡalpa/ [t̪e.ɣ̞u.siˈɣ̞al.pa]
• Rhymes: -alpa
• Syllabification: Te‧gu‧ci‧gal‧pa

Proper noun

Tegucigalpa f

1. Tegucigalpa (the capital city of Honduras)

   Synonyms: Tegus, (nickname) Teguz

Derived terms

• tegucigalpense