Costa Rican

See also: costarican

English

Etymology

From Costa Rica +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Costa Rican (plural Costa Ricans)

1. A person from Costa Rica or of Costa Rican descent.

Translations

person from Costa Rica

• Asturian: costarricanu (ast) m, costarricana (ast) f
• Bulgarian: костариканец (kostarikanec), костариканка f (kostarikanka), костариканци pl (kostarikanci)
• Catalan: costa-riqueny (ca) m, costa-riquenya (ca) f
• Czech: Kostaričan (cs) m
• Dutch: Costa Ricaan (nl) m, Costa Ricaanse (nl) f
• Esperanto: kostarikano
• French: Costaricien (fr) m, Costaricienne (fr) f
• Galician: costarriqueño (gl) m
• Georgian: კოსტარიკელი (ḳosṭariḳeli)
• German: Costa-Ricaner (de) m, Costa-Ricanerin (de) f
• Greek: Κοσταρικανός (el) m (Kostarikanós), Κοσταρικανή f (Kostarikaní)
• Irish: Cósta Ríceach m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: costaricaner m, kostarikaner m

  Nynorsk: costarican (nn) m, costaricanar (nn) m, kostarikan (nn) m, kostarikanar (nn) m

• Polish: Kostarykanin (pl) m, Kostarykanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: costa-riquenho (pt) m, costa-riquense (pt) m
• Romanian: costarican (ro) m, costaricană (ro) f
• Russian: костарика́нец (ru) m (kostarikánec), костарика́нка (ru) f (kostarikánka), коста-рика́нец m (kosta-rikánec), коста-рика́нка f (kosta-rikánka)
• Serbo-Croatian: Kostarikanac (sh) m, Kostarikanka f
• Spanish: costarricense (es) m, costarriqueño (es) m, tico (es) m (colloquial)
• Swahili: Mkostarika (sw)
• Turkish: Kosta Rikalı (tr)
• Yiddish: קאָסטאַריקאַנער m (kostarikaner), קאָסטאַריקאַנערין f (kostarikanerin)

Adjective

Costa Rican (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Costa Rica.

   He has a home in the Costa Rican hills.

2. Of or pertaining to the people, language, or culture of Costa Rica.

   His dialect was distinctly Costa Rican.

   • 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores.

Translations

pertaining to Costa Rica

• Asturian: costarricanu (ast)
• Catalan: costa-riqueny (ca)
• Czech: kostarický (cs)
• Dutch: Costa Ricaans (nl)
• Galician: costarriqueño (gl)
• German: costa-ricanisch (de)
• Hungarian: Costa Rica-i (hu)
• Irish: Cósta Ríceach
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: costaricansk, kostarikansk

  Nynorsk: costaricansk (nn), kostarikansk (nn)

• Polish: kostarykański (pl)
• Portuguese: costa-riquenho (pt), costa-riquense (pt)
• Romanian: costarican (ro)
• Russian: костарика́нский (ru) (kostarikánskij), коста-рика́нский (ru) (kosta-rikánskij)
• Spanish: costarricense (es), costarriqueño (es), tico (es) (colloquial)
• Swahili: Kikostarika
• Swedish: costaricansk (sv)

Finnish

Proper noun

Costa Rican

1. genitive singular of Costa Rica