Costa Rica

English

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Etymology

From Spanish rica (“rich”), costa (“coast”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌkɒs.tə ˈɹiː.kə/, X-SAMPA: /%kQs.t@ "ri:.k@/
• (US) enPR: kōstə rēkə; IPA: /ˌkoʊ.stə ˈɹi.kə/, /ˌkɑ.stə ˈɹi.kə/, X-SAMPA: /%koU.st@ "ri.k@/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. A country in Central America; Official name: Republic of Costa Rica. Capital San José.

Translations

country

• Arabic: كوستاريكا (ar) (Kustariika) f
• Armenian: Կոստա Ռիկա (hy) (Kosta Rika) 
• Bengali: কোস্টা রিকা (bn)
• Breton: Costa Rica (br)
• Catalan: Costa Rica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哥斯達黎加 (cmn), 哥斯达黎加 (cmn) (Gēsīdálíjiā)

• Czech: Kostarika (cs) f
• Danish: Costa Rica (da)
• Dutch: Costa Rica (nl)
• Esperanto: Kostariko (eo)
• Faroese: Kosta Rika (fo) n
• Finnish: Costa Rica (fi)
• French: Costa Rica (fr)
• Georgian: კოსტა-რიკა (ka) (k'ost'a-rik'a) 
• German: Costa Rica (de) n
• Greek: Κόστα Ρίκα (el) (Kósta Ríka) f 
• Hebrew: קוסטה ריקה (he)
• Hindi: कोस्टा रिका (hi)
• Hungarian: Costa Rica (hu)
• Icelandic: Kosta Ríka (is) f, Kostaríka (is) f
• Interlingua: Costa Rica (ia)

• Italian: Costa Rica (it)
• Japanese: コスタリカ (ja) (Kosutarika)
• Khmer: កូស្តារីកា (km) (ko sta ri ka)
• Korean: 코스타리카 (ko) (Koseutarika)
• Macedonian: Костарика (mk) (Kostaríka) f
• Norwegian: Costa Rica (no)
• Polish: Kostaryka (pl)
• Portuguese: Costa Rica (pt)
• Quechua: Kustarika (qu)
• Romanian: Costa Rica (ro) f
• Russian: Коста-Рика (ru) (Kosta-Ríka) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Костарика (sh) f

  Latin: Kostarika (sh) f

• Spanish: Costa Rica (es) f
• Swahili: Kostarika (sw)
• Swedish: Costa Rica (sv)
• Thai: คอสตาริกา (th)
• Turkish: Kosta Rika (tr)
• Yoruba: Kóstá Rikà (yo)

Derived terms

• Costa Rican a
• CRI

See also

• (countries of Central America) country of Central America; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of Central America)}

Anagrams

• acroatics

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Asturian

Wikipedia ^ast

Proper noun

Costa Rica f 

1. Costa Rica

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Breton

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Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica

Derived terms

• costa-riqueny

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Danish

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Costa Rica n

1. Costa Rica

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica

Declension

Declension of Costa Rica (type kala) singular plural nominative Costa Rica – genitive Costa Rican – partitive Costa Ricaa – accusative Costa Rica Costa Rican – inessive Costa Ricassa – elative Costa Ricasta – illative Costa Ricaan – adessive Costa Ricalla – ablative Costa Ricalta – allative Costa Ricalle – essive Costa Ricana – translative Costa Ricaksi – instructive – – abessive Costa Ricatta – comitative – – 1) Rare.

Anagrams

• aroista, raoista, toraisa

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French

Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica

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German

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Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica

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Hungarian

Wikipedia ^hu

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Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica

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Interlingua

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Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica

Derived terms

• costaricano

Anagrams

• accorasti
• cascatori
• ricascato
• scaricato
• scorciata
• socratica
• stracocia

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica

Related terms

• costarican, costaricaner, kostarikan, kostarikaner
• costaricansk, kostarikansk

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica

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Romanian

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Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Costa Rica f

1. Costa Rica

Derived terms

• costarricense a

See also

• tico

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Swedish

Proper noun

Costa Rica

1. Costa Rica