Caracas

See also: caraças and caracas

English

Etymology

From Spanish Caracas. Named after the Caraca tribe. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɑːkəs/, /kəˈɹækəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Caracas

1. The capital city of Venezuela.

Related terms

• Caracasian (rare)

Translations

capital of Venezuela

• Albanian: Karákas
• Arabic: كَرَاكَاس f (karākās)
• Armenian: Կարակաս (hy) (Karakas)
• Azerbaijani: Karakas (az)
• Belarusian: Кара́кас m (Karákas)
• Bulgarian: Кара́кас m (Karákas)
• Burmese: ကရာကက်စ်မြို့ (ka.rakakcmrui.)
• Catalan: Caracas
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡拉卡斯 (Kǎlākǎsī)

• Czech: Caracas (cs)
• Danish: Caracas
• Dutch: Caracas (nl) n
• Esperanto: Karakaso (eo)
• Finnish: Caracas (fi)
• French: Caracas (fr) f, Caraque (fr) (obsolete)
• Georgian: კარაკასი (ḳaraḳasi)
• German: Caracas (de) n
• Greek: Καράκας (el) (Karákas)
• Hebrew: קראקס \ קָרָקָס f (karakas)
• Hindi: काराकास m (kārākās)
• Hungarian: Caracas (hu)
• Italian: Caracas f
• Japanese: カラカス (ja) (Karakasu)
• Kazakh: Каракас (Karakas)
• Khmer: ការ៉ាកាស (km) (kaaraakaah)
• Korean: 카라카스 (Karakaseu)
• Kyrgyz: Каракас (Karakas)
• Latvian: Karakasa f
• Lithuanian: Karakasas m
• Macedonian: Каракас m (Karakas)
• Maltese: Karakas
• Marathi: काराकास n (kārākās)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Каракас (Karakas)

• Persian: کاراکاس (kârâkâs)
• Polish: Caracas (pl) n
• Portuguese: Caracas (pt) f
• Romanian: Caracas (ro)
• Russian: Кара́кас (ru) m (Karákas)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Каракас m

  Roman: Caracas (sh) m

• Slovak: Caracas
• Slovene: Caracas
• Spanish: Caracas (es) m
• Tajik: Каракас (Karakas)
• Tatar: Каракас (Qaraqas)
• Thai: การากัส
• Turkish: Karakas (tr)
• Turkmen: Karakas
• Ukrainian: Кара́кас m (Karákas)
• Urdu: کاراکاس m (kārākās)
• Uzbek: Karakas
• Vietnamese: Ca-ra-cát
• Yiddish: קאַראַקאַס n (karakas)

Anagrams

• cascara, Saccara

Catalan

Proper noun

Caracas m

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkarakas]

Proper noun

Caracas m inan (relational adjective caracaský)

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela)

Declension

Declension of Caracas (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Caracas
genitive	Caracasu
dative	Caracasu
accusative	Caracas
vocative	Caracase
locative	Caracasu
instrumental	Caracasem

Further reading

• “Caracas”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁa.kas/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Caracas ?

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela).

   Synonym: (obsolete) Caraque

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈʁa(ː)kas/, (often also) /ˈka(ː)ʁakas/

Proper noun

Caracas n (proper noun, genitive Caracas' or (with an article) Caracas)

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela).

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Caracas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈra.kas/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -akas
• Syllabification: Ca‧ra‧cas

Proper noun

Caracas n (indeclinable)

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela)

Derived terms

adjective

• karakaski

nouns

• karakaska
• karakaszczyk

Further reading

• Caracas in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾa.kɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾa.kɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾa.kɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾa.kas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈɾa.kɐʃ/

• Hyphenation: Ca‧ra‧cas

Proper noun

Caracas ?

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkarakas]

Proper noun

Caracas m inan (genitive singular Caracasu)

1. Caracas (the capital of Venezuela)

References

• “Caracas”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾakas/ [kaˈɾa.kas]
• Rhymes: -akas
• Syllabification: Ca‧ra‧cas

Proper noun

Caracas ?

1. Caracas (the capital city of Venezuela)
   • 2021 November 20, Ana Cucalón, “Venezuela logra récord Guinness con la orquesta más grande del mundo”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     La interpretación de la marcha eslava realizada el sábado 13 de noviembre en el patio de honor de la academia militar de Caracas ganó el récord Guinness cómo la orquesta más grande del mundo al superar los 8.097 músicos tocando de forma simultánea por más de 5 minutos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• → Paraujano: Karaaka
• →⇒ Ye'kwana: Kadakanña

Anagrams

• carcasa
• cáscara