Guadalcanal

English

Etymology

Spanish. The Pacific island was named in 1568 by Álvaro de Mendaña, after his hometown of Guadalcanal, Spain. From Arabic وَادِي الْخَانَات (wādī l-ḵānāt, “Valley of the Stalls”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡwɑː.dəl.kəˈnɑːl/

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Proper noun

Guadalcanal

1. A town in Andalusia, Spain.
2. A volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands.
   1. A battle in World War II in which American forces recaptured it from the Japanese.

Related terms

• Guadalajara, Guadalquivir, Guadalupe, Guadiana

Translations

Pacific island

• Arabic: جُوَادَالْكَانَال m (guwadalkanāl)
• Bulgarian: Гуадалканал m (Guadalkanal)
• Catalan: Guadalcanal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓜達爾卡納爾島／瓜达尔卡纳尔岛 (Guādá'ěrkǎnà'ěr dǎo)

• Czech: Guadalcanal m
• Danish: Guadalcanal c
• Dutch: Guadalcanal (nl) m
• Finnish: Guadalcanal (fi)
• French: Guadalcanal (fr) m
• German: Guadalcanal m
• Hebrew: גוודלקנל m
• Italian: Guadalcanal
• Japanese: ガダルカナル島 (Gadarukanaru-tō), ガ島 (Ga-tō)
• Korean: 과달카날 섬 (gwadalkanal seom)
• Macedonian: Гвадалка́нал m (Gvadalkánal)
• Norwegian: Guadalcanal
• Polish: Guadalcanal m
• Portuguese: Guadalcanal f
• Russian: Гуадалканал m (Guadalkanal)
• Spanish: Guadalcanal m
• Swedish: Guadalcanal c

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡvadalkanal]

Proper noun

Guadalcanal m inan (related adjective guadalcanalský)

1. Guadalcanal (an island in the Pacific)

Declension

Declension of Guadalcanal (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Guadalcanal
genitive	Guadalcanalu
dative	Guadalcanalu
accusative	Guadalcanal
vocative	Guadalcanale
locative	Guadalcanalu
instrumental	Guadalcanalem

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwa.daw.kaˈnaw/ [ɡwa.daʊ̯.kaˈnaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡwɐ.dal.kɐˈnal/ [ɡwɐ.ðaɫ.kɐˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡwɐ.dal.kɐˈnal/ [ɡwɐ.ðaɫ.kɐˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡwɐ.dal.kɐˈna.li/ [ɡwɐ.ðaɫ.kɐˈna.li]

Proper noun

Guadalcanal

1. Guadalcanal (a village in Andalusia, Spain)
2. Guadalcanal (an island and province of the Solomon Islands)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwadalkaˈnal/ [ɡwa.ð̞al.kaˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: Gua‧dal‧ca‧nal

Proper noun

Guadalcanal ?

1. Guadalcanal (Pacific island)