Ottawa

See also: Òttawa

English

Etymology

Said to be from Ojibwe odaawaa (“traders”)/ᐅᑡᐙ.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK)

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑtəwə/, /ˈɑtəˌwɑ/

Proper noun

Ottawa

1. An Algonquian people closely related to the Ojibwe; also spelt Ottowa.
2. The Ottawa dialect of Ojibwe; also spelt Odawa or Odaawaa.
3. A city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada.
   • 1996, Black, Eldon, “Prologue: 1960-1967”, in Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations, 1967-1974‎^[1], Carleton University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 243884090, page 9:

     And of course, in July 1967 De Gaulle did come to Canada. He made his speeches in Quebec, was enthusiastically received on the Chemin du Roy, shouted “Vive le Quebec libre” in Montreal and, on learning of the reaction of the Canadian government, returned to Paris without going to Ottawa.

4. (by synecdoche, metonymically) The federal government of Canada.
   • 2005, "Ottawa, carmakers reach Kyoto deal", CBC News, 5 April 2005:

     New vehicles will cut emissions by 5.3 megatonnes by 2010 as part of Ottawa's plans to meet Canada's Kyoto targets.

   • 2006, "Literacy groups demand $17M back from Ottawa", CBC News, 4 October 2006:

     Literacy groups across the country demanded Wednesday that Ottawa put back the $17.7 million it cut from adult literacy programs last week.

   • 2008, "Ottawa boosting aid to Afghanistan by $550 million", CBC News, 10 June 2008:

     Ottawa announced the mission in Afghanistan will have a greater focus on reconstruction, development and security training, with an increase in aid of more than a half a billion dollars.

5. A river flowing SE between Ontario and Quebec, Canada into the St. Lawrence River.
6. A city, the county seat of LaSalle County, Illinois.
7. A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Kansas.
8. An unincorporated community in Ottawa Township, Le Sueur County, Minnesota.
9. A village, the county seat of Putnam County, Ohio.
10. A town and unincorporated community in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.

Synonyms

• (capital of Canada): National Capital Region, NCR, Ottawa-Hull, Ottawa-Gatineau (biprovincial metropolitan region)

Coordinate terms

• (capital of Canada): Hull, Gatineau, Mega-Gatineau (twin city on opposite bank of river)

Derived terms

• Ottawa County
• Ottawa-Hull
• Ottawa-Gatineau
• Mega-Ottawa

Related terms

• Ottawan
• Outaouais

Translations

Native American people

• Catalan: ottawes
• French: Outaouais (fr)
• German: Odawa

• Ojibwe: Odaawaag pl, Anishinaabeg pl
• Ottawa: Nishnaabeg pl, Daawaag pl
• Potawatomi: Odawak pl, Neshnabék pl

capital of Canada

• Albanian: Ottawa f
• Amharic: ኦታዋ (ʾotawa)
• Arabic: أُوتَاوَا‎ f (ʾōtāwā)
• Armenian: Օտտավա (Ōttava)
• Assamese: অট্টৱা (ottowa)
• Azerbaijani: Ottava (az)
• Belarusian: Ата́ва f (Atáva)
• Bengali: অটোয়া (ôṭoẏa)
• Bulgarian: Ота́ва f (Otáva)
• Burmese: အော့တဝမြို့ (au.ta.wa.mrui.)
• Catalan: Ottawa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 渥太華, 渥太华 (ak¹ taai³ waa⁴)

  Mandarin: 渥太華 (zh), 渥太华 (zh) (Wòtàihuá)

• Czech: Ottawa (cs) f
• Danish: Ottawa n
• Dutch: Ottawa (nl) n
• Esperanto: Otavo (eo)
• Estonian: Ottawa
• Finnish: Ottawa (fi)
• French: Ottawa (fr) f
• Galician: Otava (gl) f
• Georgian: ოტავა (oṭava)
• German: Ottawa (de) n
• Greek: Οττάβα (el) f (Ottáva)
• Gujarati: ઓટાવા (oṭāvā)
• Hebrew: אוטווה \ אוֹטָוָה‎ (he) f (otawa)
• Hindi: ओटावा m (oṭāvā)
• Hungarian: Ottawa (hu)
• Icelandic: Ottawa
• Indonesian: Ottawa
• Inuktitut: ᐊᑦᑖᕙ (attaava)
• Irish: Ottawa
• Italian: Ottawa (it) f
• Japanese: オタワ (Otawa)
• Kannada: ಆಟ್ಟಾವಾ (āṭṭāvā)
• Kazakh: Оттава (Ottava)
• Khmer: អូតាវ៉ា (km) (ʼoutaavaa)
• Korean: 오타와 (Otawa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Ottawa

• Kyrgyz: Оттава (Ottava)
• Lao: ໂອຕະວາ (ʼō ta wā)
• Latin: Ottavia

• Latvian: Otava f
• Lithuanian: Otava f
• Macedonian: Ота́ва f (Otáva)
• Malay: Ottawa
• Malayalam: ഓട്ടവ (ōṭṭava)
• Maltese: Ottawa
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Оттава (Ottava)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Ottawa

  Nynorsk: Ottawa

• Oriya: ଓଟାୱା (oṭawa)
• Ottawa: Daawaa
• Pashto: اوټاوا‎ f (oṭāwā), اټاوا‎ f (aṫāwā)
• Persian: اتاوا‎ (otâvâ)
• Polish: Ottawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Otava (pt) f, Ottawa (pt) f
• Potawatomi: Odawa
• Romanian: Ottawa (ro)
• Russian: Отта́ва (ru) f (Ottáva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Отава f

  Roman: Ottawa (sh) f, Otava f

• Sinhalese: ඕටවා (ōṭawā)
• Slovak: Ottawa f
• Slovene: Ottawa f
• Spanish: Ottawa (es)
• Swedish: Ottawa (sv) n
• Tagalog: Ottawa
• Tajik: Оттава (Ottava)
• Tamil: ஒட்டாவா (oṭṭāvā)
• Tatar: Оттава (Ottawa)
• Telugu: అటావా (aṭāvā)
• Thai: ออตตาวา (ɔ́t-dtaa-wâa)
• Tibetan: ཨོ་ཏ་ཝ (o ta wa)
• Turkish: Ottawa
• Turkmen: Ottawa
• Ukrainian: Отта́ва f (Ottáva)
• Urdu: اوٹاوا‎ m (oṭāvā)
• Uyghur: ئوتتاۋا‎ (ottawa)
• Uzbek: Ottava
• Vietnamese: Ốt-ta-oa, Ốc Đa Hoa
• Yiddish: אָטאַװאַ‎ n (otava)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ottawa terms

Noun

Ottawa (plural Ottawas)

1. A member of the Ottawa people.

Translations

a member of the Ottawa people

• Catalan: ottawa, ottawes pl
• French: outaouais (fr)
• German: Odawa
• Menominee: Atāwāw

• Ojibwe: Odaawaa, Odaawaag pl, Anishinaabe, Anishinaabeg pl
• Ottawa: Nishnaabe, Nishnaabeg pl, Daawaa, Daawaag pl
• Potawatomi: Odawa, Odawak pl, Neshnabé, Neshnabék pl
• Unami: Tawe

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Danish

Proper noun

Ottawa

1. Ottawa (a city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Ottawa n

1. Ottawa (a city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada)

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French

Etymology

From English Ottawa, ultimately from Ojibwe odaawaa (“traders”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ta.wa/

• Audio (CAN)

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Proper noun

Ottawa f

1. Ottawa (a city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada)
2. (by synecdoche, metonymically) the federal government of Canada

Synonyms

• Région de la capitale nationale, RCN, Ottawa-Hull, Ottawa-Gatineau (biprovincial metropolitan region)

Coordinate terms

• Hull, Gatineau, Méga-Gatineau (twin city on opposite bank of river)

Derived terms

• Ottawa-Hull
• Ottawa-Gatineau
• Méga-Ottawa

Related terms

• Outaouais

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Ottawa n (proper noun, genitive Ottawas or (optionally with an article) Ottawa)

1. Ottawa (a city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada)

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Italian

Proper noun

Ottawa f

1. Ottawa (a city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Ottawa

1. Ottawa (a city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Ottawa

1. Ottawa (a city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.ˈtaw.ɐ/

Proper noun

Ottawa f

1. Alternative form of Otava

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Slovak

Proper noun

Ottawa f (genitive singular Ottawy, declension pattern of žena)

1. Ottawa (a city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada)

References

• Ottawa in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈtawa/, [oˈt̪a.wa]

• IPA^(key): /oˈtaɡwa/, [oˈt̪a.ɣ̞wa]

Proper noun

Ottawa ?

1. Ottawa (a city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada)

Further reading

• “Ottawa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Proper noun

Ottawa n (genitive Ottawas)

1. Ottawa (a city in Ontario, Canada; capital city of Canada)