Yucatán

See also Yucatan

English

Map of Mexico highlighting Yucatán

Etymology

Several etymologies for this name have been proposed:

• Perhaps the most well-known is where it is said to derive from Mayan, being either tectetan, meaning “I do not understand you” or uyutan, uyukatan, or yukutan, “listen to them talk!”.
• Bernal Diaz derived the name from the vegetable yuca + tale a hillock in which it is planted.
• Perhaps more likely is the derivation from Nahuatl yohcāuh ‘possession, riches’ + tlān ‘place of’.

Proper noun

Yucatán

1. a peninsula in southeast Mexico
2. a state in Mexico

Translations

a penisula in southeast Mexico

Bosnian: Yucatan (bs) Breton: Ledenez Yucatán (br) Bulgarian: Юкатан (bg) Catalan: Península de Yucatán (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 尤卡坦半岛 (cmn) Croatian: Yucatán (hr) Czech: Yucatán (cs) Danish: Yucatán-halvøen (da) Dutch: Yucatán (nl) Esperanto: Jukatano (eo) Finnish: Jukatanin niemimaa (fi) French: Péninsule du Yucatán (fr) Galician: Península de Iucatán (gl) German: Yucatán (de) Hebrew: חצי האי יוקטן (he)

Ido: Yukatan-peninsulo (io) Japanese: ユカタン半島 (ja) (Yukatan-hantō) Korean: 유카탄 반도 (ko) Lithuanian: Jukatano pusiasalis (lt) Nahuatl: Tlālyacatl Yucatán (nah) Norwegian: Yucatán (no) Persian: شبه‌جزیره یوکاتان (fa) Polish: Półwysep Jukatan (pl) Portuguese: Península de Iucatã (pt) Quechua: Yukatan yaqa wat'a (qu) Russian: Юкатан (ru) (Jukatán) Serbian: Јукатан (sr) Slovak: Yucatánsky polostrov (sk) Spanish: Península de Yucatán (es) Swedish: Yucatánhalvön (sv) Urdu: جزیرہ نما یوکاتان (ur)

a state in Mexco

Arabic: ولاية يوكاتان (ar) Basque: Yucatan (eu) Bulgarian: Юкатан (bg) Catalan: Yucatán (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 尤卡坦州 (cmn) Cornish: Yucatán (kw) Croatian: Yucatán (hr) Danish: Yucatán (da) Dutch: Yucatán (nl) Esperanto: Jukatanio (eo) Estonian: Yucatán (et) Finnish: Yucatán (fi) French: Yucatán (fr) Galician: Estado de Iucatán (gl) German: Yucatán (de) Indonesian: Yucatán (id)

Italian: Yucatán (it) Japanese: ユカタン州 (ja) (Yukatan-shū) Latin: Iucatania (la) Lithuanian: Jukatanas (lt) m., Jukatano valstija (lt) f. Nahuatl: Yucatán (nah) Norwegian: Yucatán (no) Persian: یوکاتان (fa) Piedmontese: Yucatán Polish: Jukatan (pl) Portuguese: Iucatã (pt) Romanian: Yucatán (ro) Russian: Юкатан (ru) (Yukatan) Serbian: Јукатан (sr) Spanish: Yucatán (es) Turkish: Yucatán (tr) Ukrainian: Юкатан (uk)

See also

• Yucatán on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Czech

Proper noun

Yucatán m.

1. Yucatán (state in Mexico)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Yucatán m.

1. Yucatán (peninsula or state)

Related terms

• yucateco

See also

• Yucatán on the Spanish Wikipedia.es.Wikipedia