Azores

See also: azores and azorés

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Azores, from Portuguese Açores (“Azores”), from açores, plural of açor (“goshawk”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈzɔːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪzɔːɹz/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z

Proper noun

the Azores pl

1. An archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean
2. An autonomous region of Portugal in the North Atlantic (officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores)

Hypernyms

• Macaronesia

Hyponyms

• São Miguel
• Santa Maria
• Terceira
• São Jorge
• Graciosa
• Pico
• Faial
• Flores
• Corvo

Derived terms

• Azorean

Translations

an archipelago and an autonomous region

• Arabic: اَلْأَزُور (al-ʔazūr)

  Hijazi Arabic: الأزور f pl (al-ʔazōr)

• Armenian: Ազորյան կղզիներ (hy) pl (Azoryan kġziner), Ազորներ pl (Azorner)
• Catalan: Açores (ca) m pl
• Cherokee: ᎠᏐᎴᏏ (asolesi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亞速爾群島 / 亚速尔群岛 (zh) (Yàsù'ěr qúndǎo)

• Czech: Azory (cs) f pl
• Danish: Azorerne (da) pl, Acorerne pl
• Dutch: Azoren (nl)
• Esperanto: Acoroj pl
• Farefare: Azɔa pl
• Finnish: Azorit (fi)
• French: les Açores (fr) f pl
• Galician: Azores (gl) m pl
• Georgian: აზორის კუნძულები (azoris ḳunʒulebi)
• German: die Azoren (de) f pl
• Greek: Αζόρες (el) f pl (Azóres)
• Hindi: अज़ोरेस (azores)
• Hungarian: Azori-szigetek (hu)
• Icelandic: Asoreyjar f pl
• Interlingua: le Azores pl
• Irish: na hAsóir m
• Italian: le Azzorre f pl
• Japanese: アゾレス諸島 (Azoresu-shotō)
• Korean: 아조레스 제도 (Ajoreseu jedo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Asorene, (Riksmål) Azorene

  Nynorsk: Asorane

• Polish: Azory (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Açores (pt) m pl
• Russian: Азо́рские острова́ (ru) m pl (Azórskije ostrová), Азо́ры (ru) pl (Azóry)
• Spanish: las Azores (es) f pl
• Swedish: Azorerna (sv) pl
• Volapük: Lazoruäns (vo)

Further reading

• Azores on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Erazos

Interlingua

Proper noun

le Azores pl

1. the Azores

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈθoɾes/ [aˈθo.ɾes] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /aˈsoɾes/ [aˈso.ɾes] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oɾes
• Syllabification: A‧zo‧res

Proper noun

Azores f pl (plural only)

1. the Azores

   Fuimos a las Azores.

   We went to the Azores.