Canada

See also cañada, Canadá, Canadà, and Ca-na-đa

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From the Laurentian canada (“village, settlement”). See "Name of Canada" on Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK, US) IPA: /ˈkæn.ə.də/

• Audio (CA)

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• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: Can‧ada

Proper noun

Canada

1. A country in North America; official name: Canada.
2. (historical) Lower Canada or Upper Canada, often "the Canadas". Also Canada East or Canada West.

Synonyms

• Canuckistan, Soviet Canuckistan, People's Republic of Canada
• Great White North
• neighbor to the north

Derived terms

Derived terms

Atlantic Canada = Atlantic provinces blame Canada Canada balsam Canada buffalo berry Canada Day Canada Dry Canada dogwood = bunchberry Canada East = Lower Canada Canada Games Canada goose, Branta canadensis Canada jay = grey jay Canada lily, Lilium canadense Canada lynx, Felis canadensis

Canada mayflower = wild lily of the valley, Maianthemum canadense Canada Pension Plan Canada plum, Prunus nigra and its fruit Canada poplar = Carolina poplar Canadarm Canada Savings Bond Canada thistle, Circium arvense Canada violet, Viola canadensis Canada West = Upper Canada Canada Yew = ground hemlock Canadian Canadiana Canadianism

Canadianize Canadianist Canadien Canadienne Canajun Central Canada = Central provinces French Canada Lower Canada O Canada Upper Canada

Related terms

• Canuck
• Kanata

Translations

Country in North America

• Abkhaz: Канада (ab) (Kanada)
• Afrikaans: Kanada (af)
• Albanian: Kanadaja (sq)
• Amharic: ካናዳ (am) (kanada)
• Arabic: كندا (ar) (kanadā) f
• Aragonese: Canadá (an)
• Aramaic: ܩܢܕܐ (qanadā)
• Armenian: Կանադա (hy) (Kanada)
• Asturian: Canadá (ast)
• Azeri: Kanada (az)
• Bashkir: Канада (Kanada)
• Basque: Kanada (eu)
• Bavarian: Kanada
• Belarusian: Канада (be) (Kanáda) f
• Bengali: কানাডা (bn) (kanaḑa)
• Bislama: Kanada (bi)
• Breton: Kanada
• Bulgarian: Канада (bg) (Kánada) f
• Burmese: ကနေဒါ (my) (kăneda)
• Catalan: Canadà (ca)
• Cebuano: Canada
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 加拿大 (gaa1 naa4 daai6)

  Hakka: 加拿大 (Kâ-nâ-thai)

  Mandarin: 加拿大 (cmn) (Jiānádà)

  Min Nan: 加拿大 (nan) (Ka-ná-tāi, Kha-ná-tah)

• Chuvash: Канада (Kanada)
• Cornish: Kanada (kw)
• Cree: ᑳᓇᑕ (cr) (kânata)
• Czech: Kanada (cs) f
• Danish: Canada (da)
• Dhivehi: ކެނެޑާ (dv) (keneḋā)
• Dutch: Canada (nl)
• Dzongkha: ཀེ་ན་ཌ་ (dz) (ke.na.ḍa)
• Esperanto: Kanado (eo)
• Estonian: Kanada (et)
• Faroese: Kanada (fo)
• Finnish: Kanada (fi)
• French: Canada (fr) m
• Galician: Canadá (gl)
• Georgian: კანადა (ka) (kanada)
• German: Kanada (de) n

  Swiss German: Kanada n

• Greek: Καναδάς (el) (Kanadás) m
• Greenlandic: Kanata (kl)
• Guaraní: Kanatã (gn)
• Gujarati: કેનેડા (gu) (keneḍā)
• Haitian Creole: Kanada
• Hausa: Kyanadà (ha) f
• Hawaiian: Kanakā
• Hebrew: קָנָדָּה (he) (qanada) f
• Hindi: कनाडा (hi) (kanāḍā)
• Hungarian: Kanada (hu)
• Icelandic: Kanada (is)
• Ido: Kanada (io)
• Igbo: Canada
• Ilocano: Canada
• Indonesian: Kanada (id)
• Interlingua: Canada (ia)
• Interlingue: Canada (ie)
• Inuktitut: ᑲᓇᑕ (iu) (kanata)
• Inupiak: Canada (ik)
• Irish: Ceanada (ga)
• Italian: Canada (it) m
• Japanese: カナダ (ja) (Kanada), 加奈陀 (ja) (Kanada)
• Javanese: Kanada (jv)
• Kalenjin: k
• Kamba: Kanada
• Kannada: ಕೆನಡಾ (kn) (kenaḍā)
• Kapampangan: Canada
• Kazakh: Канада (kk) (Kanada)
• Khmer: កាណាដា (km) (kaanaadaa)
• Korean: 캐나다 (ko) (Kaenada)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: که‌نه‌دا (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Канада (ky) (Kanada)
• Lao: ການາດາ (lo) (kānādā)
• Latin: Canada (la)
• Latvian: Kanāda (lv)
• Limburgish: Canada (li)
• Lingala: Kanadá (ln)

• Lithuanian: Kanada (lt)
• Lojban: kadnygu'e (jbo)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Kanada

• Lower Sorbian: Kanada
• Luo: Kanada
• Luxembourgish: Kanada (lb)
• Macedonian: Канада (mk) (Kánada) f
• Malay: Kanada (ms)
• Malayalam: കാനഡ (ml) (kānaḍa)
• Maltese: il-Kanada
• Manx: Yn Chanadey (gv)
• Marathi: कॅनडा (mr) (kĕnaḍā)
• Mongolian: Канад (mn) (Kanad)
• Nahuatl: Canauhtlān (nah)
• Nauruan: Canada (na)
• Navajo: Deeteel bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Canadà
• Nepali: क्यानाडा (ne) (kyānāḍā)
• Norman: Cannada
• Northern Sami: Kanáda
• Norwegian: Canada (no)

  Nynorsk: Canada (nn)

• Novial: Kanada
• Occitan: Canadà (oc)
• Ojibwe: Zhaaganaashiiwaki
• Oromo: Canada (om)
• Ossetian: Канадæ (Kanadæ)
• Pashto: کاناډا (ps) (Kānāḋā)
• Persian: کانادا (fa) (Kânâdâ)
• Piedmontese: Canadà
• Polish: Kanada (pl) f
• Portuguese: Canadá (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਕੈਨੇਡਾ (pa) (kaineḍā)
• Quechua: Kanada (qu)
• Romanian: Canada (ro) f
• Russian: Канада (ru) (Kanáda) f
• Samogitian: Kanada
• Sanskrit: केनडा (sa) (kenaḍā)
• Scots: Canadae
• Scottish Gaelic: Canada (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Канада (sh) f

  Roman: Kanada (sh) f

• Sicilian: Canadà m
• Sinhalese: කැනඩාව (si) (kænaḍāva)
• Slovak: Kanada (sk) f
• Slovene: Kánada (sl) f
• Somali: Canada (so)
• Spanish: Canadá (es) m
• Swahili: Kanada (sw)
• Swedish: Kanada (sv)
• Tagalog: Kanada (tl)
• Tahitian: Tanata
• Tajik: Канада (tg) (Kanada)
• Tamil: கனடா (ta) (kaṉaṭā)
• Tatar: Канада (tt) (Kanada)
• Telugu: కెనడా (te) (kenaḍā)
• Tetum: Kanadá
• Thai: แคนาดา (th) (kâenaadaa)
• Tibetan: ཁ་ནའ་ཏ (bo) (kʰa.nā.ta)
• Tok Pisin: Kanada (tpi)
• Tongan: Kānata (to)
• Tsonga: Canada (ts)
• Turkish: Kanada (tr)
• Turkmen: Kanada (tk)
• Ukrainian: Канада (uk) (Kanáda) f
• Urdu: کینیڈا (ur) (keneḋā), کناڈا (ur) (kanāḍā)
• Uyghur: كانادا (ug) (kanada)
• Uzbek: Kanada (uz)
• Venetian: Canada
• Veps: Kanad
• Vietnamese: Ca-na-đa (vi), Gia Nã Đại (vi) (加拿大 (vi))
• Volapük: Kanadän (vo)
• Welsh: Canada (cy)
• West Frisian: Kanada (fy)
• Wolof: Kanadaa (wo)
• Yiddish: קאַנאַדע (yi) (Kanade)
• Yoruba: Kánádà (yo)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: IKhanada (zu)

References

• “Canada” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Jacques Cartier (1545), Relation originale de Jacques Cartier, Paris: Tross [1863], p 48.

See also

• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of North America)}
• (provinces of Canada) province of Canada; Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Canada)}
• (territories of Canada) territory of Canada; Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon ^{(Category: en:Territories of Canada)}

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Dutch

Proper noun

Canada n (uncountable)

1. Canada

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ka.na.da/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Audio (Quebec, Montreal)

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• Rhymes: -a

Proper noun

Canada m

1. Canada

Derived terms

• Canadien
• canadien

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Canada m

1. Canada

Derived terms

• canadese

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Proper noun

Canada (genitive Canadae); f, first declension

1. Canada

Inflection

nominative	Canada
genitive	Canadae
dative	Canadae
accusative	Canadam
ablative	Canadā
vocative	Canada
locative	Canadae

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Canada

1. Canada

Related terms

• canadier, kanadier
• canadisk, kanadisk

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [kanada]

Proper noun

Canada f

1. Canada

Declension

gender f	uncountable
Nom/Acc	Canada
Gen/Dat	Canadei

Related terms

• canadian

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Scottish Gaelic

Proper noun

Canada m

1. Canada

   Tha Loch Lùthaise ann an Canada.

   Lake Louise is in Canada.

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Tatar

Proper noun

Canada

1. Canada

Declension

    declension of Canada

Nominative	Canada
Genitive	Canadanıñ
Dative	Canadaga
Accusative	Canadanı
Locative	Canadada
Ablative	Canadadan

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Venetian

Proper noun

Wikipedia ^vec

Canada m

1. Canada