Guadalcanal

English

Etymology

Named in 1568 by Álvaro de Mendaña, after his hometown of Guadalcanal, Spain. From Arabic وادي الخانات (wādi al-xānāt, “Valley of the Stalls”).

Proper noun

Wikipedia

Guadalcanal

1. a volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands
2. a battle in World War II in which American forces recaptured it from the Japanese

Translations

Pacific island

• Arabic: جوادالكانال (guwadalkanāl) m
• Bulgarian: Гуадалканал m
• Catalan: Guadalcanal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓜達爾卡納爾島 (cmn), 瓜达尔卡纳尔岛 (cmn) (Guādáěrkǎ'nàěr dǎo)

• Czech: Guadalcanal (cs) m
• Danish: Guadalcanal (da) c
• Dutch: Guadalcanal (nl) m
• Finnish: Guadalcanal (fi)
• French: Guadalcanal (fr) m
• German: Guadalcanal (de) m

• Hebrew: גוודלקנל m
• Italian: Guadalcanal (it)
• Japanese: ガダルカナル島 (gadarukanaru shima)
• Korean: 과달카날 섬 (gwadalkanal seom)
• Macedonian: Гвадалканал (mk) (Gvadalkánal) m
• Norwegian: Guadalcanal (no)
• Polish: Guadalcanal (pl) m
• Portuguese: Guadalcanal (pt) m
• Russian: Гуадалканал m
• Spanish: Guadalcanal (es) m
• Swedish: Guadalcanal (sv) c

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Czech

Proper noun

Guadalcanal m

1. Guadalcanal