Chamorro

See also: chamorro

English

Alternative forms

• (Guam) CHamoru

Etymology

Borrowed from Chamorro Chamorro.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈmɒɹəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈmɔɹoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ

Noun

Chamorro (plural Chamorros or Chamorro)

1. An indigenous native islander of the Mariana Islands consisting of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan, Rota, and Tinian.

Derived terms

• Chamorro Standard Time

Translations

ethnicity

• Chamorro: CHamoru (Guam), Chamorro (Northern Mariana Islands)
• Thai: ชาวชามอร์โร

Proper noun

Chamorro

1. An Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous native islanders of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.

Translations

Austronesian language

• Chamorro: CHamoru (Guam), Chamorro (Northern Mariana Islands)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 查莫羅語 / 查莫罗语 (zh) (Chámòluóyǔ)

• Faroese: kjamorro n
• Finnish: chamorro (fi), tšamorro (fi)
• Icelandic: tsjamorríska f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: chamorro (no) m

  Nynorsk: chamorro m

• Spanish: chamorro (es) m
• Thai: ภาษาชามอร์โร

Adjective

Chamorro (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the indigenous native islanders of the Mariana Islands consisting of Guam, Saipan, Rota, and Tinian.

Related terms

• Chamorra

Further reading

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Chamorro terms
• ISO 639-1 code ch, ISO 639-3 code cha (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Chamorro, cha ⁠

Chamorro

Alternative forms

• CHamoru (Guam)

Proper noun

Chamorro

1. (Northern Mariana Islands spelling) Chamorro (language)
2. (Northern Mariana Islands spelling) Chamorro (people)

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Cognate with Spanish chamorro (“shaved”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈmoro/ [t͡ʃaˈmo.rʊ]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Hyphenation: Cha‧mo‧rro

Proper noun

Chamorro m

1. a surname

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “Chamorro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “Chamorro” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈmoro/ [t͡ʃaˈmo.ro]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification: Cha‧mo‧rro

Proper noun

Chamorro m or f by sense

1. a surname