Azores

See also: azores and azorés

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈzɔːz/
• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪzɔːɹz/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)z

Proper noun

Azores pl

1. An archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic and an autonomous region of Portugal comprising this archipelago, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores.

Hypernyms

• Macaronesia

Derived terms

• Azorean

Translations

an archipelago and an autonomous region

• Arabic: اَلْأَزُور (al-ʔazūr)
• Armenian: Ազորյան կղզիներ (hy) pl (Azoryan kġziner), Ազորներ pl (Azorner)
• Catalan: Açores m pl
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: Azory (cs) f pl
• Danish: Azorerne (da) pl, Acorerne pl
• Dutch: azoren (nl)
• Finnish: Azorit (fi)
• French: les Açores (fr) f pl
• Galician: Azores m pl
• German: die Azoren (de) f pl
• Greek: Αζόρες f pl (Azóres)
• Hindi: अज़ोरेस (azores)
• Hungarian: Azori-szigetek (hu)
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• Interlingua: le Azores pl
• Interlingue:
• 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: os 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

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Interlingua

Proper noun

le Azores pl

1. the Azores

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Spanish

Proper noun

Azores f pl

1. the Azores

   Fuimos a las Azores. ― We went to the Azores.

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Portugal