Canada

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See also Canadá, Canadà, and Ca-na-đa

[edit] English

Wikipedia has an article on:

Canada

[edit] Etymology

From the Laurentian canada (kanata), meaning village or settlement. See "Name of Canada" on Wikipedia.

[edit] Pronunciation

(Canada, UK, US) IPA: /ˈkæn.ə.də/
Audio (CA)

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Audio (US)

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Hyphenation: Can‧ada

[edit] Proper noun

Canada

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

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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: ကနေဒာ (my) (káneda)
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 (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
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: 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 Saxon: Kanada (nds)
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: Deetéél bikéyah
Neapolitan: Canadà
Nepali: क्यानाडा (ne) (kyānāḍā)
Norman: Cannada
Northern Sami: Kanáda
Norwegian: Canada (no)

Nynorsk: Canada (nn)
Novial: Kanada
Occitan: Canadà (oc)
Ojibwe: please add this translation if you can
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: Kanada (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 (kʰa.nā.ta)
Tok Pisin: Kanada (tpi)
Tongan: Kānata
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
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)
Zulu: IKhanada (zu)

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)} ^[edit]
(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)} ^[edit]
(territories of Canada) territory of Canada; Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon ^{(Category: en:Territories of Canada)} ^[edit]

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Canada n.

Canada

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IPA: /ka.na.da/
(Quebec) (Popular) IPA: /ka.na.dɔ/
Audio (France, Paris)

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Rhymes: -a

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Canada m.

Canada

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[edit] Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Canada

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Canada m.

Canada

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canadese

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Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Canada

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Canada (genitive Canadae); f, first declension

Canada

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

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Canada

Canada

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canadier, kanadier
canadisk, kanadisk

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IPA: [kanada]

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Canada f.

Canada

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gender f.	uncountable
Nom/Acc	Canada
Gen/Dat	Canadei

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canadian

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Canada m.

Canada

Tha Loch Lùthaise ann an Canada.

Lake Louise is in Canada.

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Canada

Canada

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declension of Canada

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

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Venetian Wikipedia has an article on:

Canada

Canada m.

Canada

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