Paraguay

See also paraguay

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Disputed; from Guaraní Payagua (“Payagua tribe”) i (“water”) or para (“river”) guai (“crown”) or para (“river”) gua (“from”) i (“water”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpæɹ.ə.ɡwaɪ/, /ˈpæɹ.ə.ɡweɪ/
• (US) IPA: /ˈpɛɹ.ə.ɡweɪ/, /ˈpæɹ.ə.ɡweɪ/, /ˈpɛɹ.ə.ɡwaɪ/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Paraguay

1. A country in South America; the Republic of Paraguay.

Derived terms

• Paraguayan

Translations

country in South America

• Afrikaans: Paraguay (af)
• Albanian: Paraguaji (sq)
• Arabic: باراجواي (ar) (baragway) m, باراغواي (ar) (baraġway) m
• Armenian: Պարագվայ (hy) (Paragvay)
• Azeri: Paraqvay (az)
• Belarusian: Парагвай (be) (Parahváj) m
• Bengali: প্যারাগুয়ে (bn) (pæraguye)
• Breton: Paraguay
• Bulgarian: Парагвай (bg) (Paragváj) m
• Burmese: ပာရာဂ္ဝေး (my) (paẏagwè)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴拉圭 (cmn) (Bālāguī)

• Czech: Paraguay (cs) m
• Danish: Paraguay (da)
• Dutch: Paraguay (nl)
• Esperanto: Paragvajo (eo)
• Estonian: Paraguay (et)
• Finnish: Paraguay (fi)
• French: Paraguay (fr) m
• Galician: Paraguai (gl) m
• Georgian: პარაგვაი (ka) (paragvai)
• German: Paraguay (de) n
• Greek: Παραγουάη (el) (Paragouái) f
• Hindi: पैराग्वे (hi) (pairāgve)
• Hungarian: Paraguay (hu)
• Icelandic: Paragvæ (is)
• Indonesian: Paraguay (id)
• Interlingua: Paraguay
• Irish: Paragua (ga)
• Italian: Paraguay (it) m
• Japanese: パラグアイ (ja) (Paraguai)
• Kalenjin: Paragwe
• Kamba: Paragwe
• Kazakh: Парагвай (kk) (Paragvay)
• Khmer: ប្រទេសប៉ារ៉ាហ្គាយ (km) (prɑteih paaraagiey)
• Kikuyu: Paragwe
• Korean: 파라과이 (ko) (Paragwai)

• Kyrgyz: Парагвай (ky) (Paragvay)
• Latvian: Paragvaja (lv)
• Lithuanian: Paragvajus (lt) m
• Luhya: Paragwe
• Luo: Paragwe
• Macedonian: Парагвај (mk) (Páragvaj) m
• Malay: Paraguay (ms)
• Maltese: il-Paragwaj
• Meru: paragwe
• Mongolian: Парагвай (mn) (Paragvaj)
• Navajo: Warani Dineʼé bikéyah
• Norwegian: Paraguay (no)
• Persian: پاراگوئه (fa) (Pârâgu'e)
• Polish: Paragwaj (pl)
• Portuguese: Paraguai (pt) m
• Romanian: Paraguai (ro) n
• Russian: Парагвай (ru) (Paragváj) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Парагвај (sh) m

  Roman: Paragvaj (sh) m

• Sinhalese: පැරගුවේ (si) (pæraguvē)
• Slovak: Paraguaj (sk) m
• Slovene: Paragvaj (sl) m
• Spanish: Paraguay (es) m
• Swahili: Paragwai (sw)
• Swedish: Paraguay (sv)
• Tajik: Парагвай (tg) (Paragvay)
• Tatar: Парагвай (tt) (Paragvay)
• Thai: ปารากวัย (th) (bpaaraagwai)
• Turkish: Paraguay (tr)
• Turkmen: Paragwaý (tk)
• Ukrainian: Парагвай (uk) (Parahváj) m
• Urdu: پیراگوئے (ur) (perāgū'e)
• Uzbek: Paragvay (uz)
• Vietnamese: Paraguay (vi)

See also

• (countries of South America) country of South America; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of South America)}

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Czech

Proper noun

Paraguay

1. Paraguay

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Dutch

Proper noun

Paraguay n

1. Paraguay

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Paraguay

1. Paraguay

Declension

Declension of Paraguay (type rosé) singular plural nominative Paraguay – genitive Paraguayn – partitive Paraguayta – accusative Paraguay Paraguayn – inessive Paraguayssa – elative Paraguaysta – illative Paraguayhin – adessive Paraguaylla – ablative Paraguaylta – allative Paraguaylle – essive Paraguayna – translative Paraguayksi – instructive – – abessive Paraguaytta – comitative – –

Derived terms

• paraguaylainen

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French

Proper noun

Paraguay m

1. Paraguay

Derived terms

• Paraguayen
• paraguayen

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German

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpaʁagwaɪ/

Proper noun

Paraguay n

1. Paraguay

Derived terms

• Paraguayer
• Paraguayerin
• paraguayisch

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Paraguay m

1. Paraguay

Derived terms

• paraguaiano / paraguayano

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Paraguay

1. Paraguay

Related terms

• paraguayan, paraguayaner
• paraguayansk

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Spanish

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Etymology

From Guaraní Paraguay, formed either from pará (“sea”) + gúa (“bordering”) or from paraguã (“crown of feathers”) + y (“river”).

Pronunciation

• audio

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Proper noun

Paraguay f

1. Paraguay

Related terms

• paraguariense
• paraguay
• paraguayismo
• paraguayo/paraguaya

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Swedish

Proper noun

Paraguay

1. Paraguay