Americas

See also: Américas

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈmɛɹɪkəz/, /əˈmɛɹəkəz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛɹɪkəz

Proper noun

the Americas pl (plural only)

A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole.
Synonyms: America, New World

Hypernym: Western Hemisphere
- 2007 January 19, Grace Glueck, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  In tracing the relationships between Western Modernism and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, the curators took a universalist approach.

Derived terms

Translations

North and South America

Abenaki: Pastonki
Afrikaans: Amerika (af)
Albanian: Amerikë f (indefinite), Amerika (sq) f (definite)
Amharic: አሜሪካ (ʾämerika)
Antillean Creole: Améwik f, Amérik f
Martinican Creole: Anméwik f, Anmérik f
Arabic: أَمْرِيكَا (ar) f (ʔamrīkā), أَمِيرِكَا f (ʔamīrikā), أَمْرِيكَة (ar) f (ʔamrīka), أَمْرِيكَتَانِ (ar) f du (ʔamrīkatāni) ((the two) Americas), أميريكا f
Egyptian Arabic: امريكا f, امريكتين f du

Hijazi Arabic: أمريكا f (ʔamrīka)

Moroccan Arabic: أميريكا f (amīrīkā)
Aragonese: America f, Americas f pl (rare)
Armenian: Ամերիկա (hy) (Amerika)
Assamese: আমেৰিকা (amerika)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܡܹܝܪܝܼܟܵܐ f (āmērīkā), ܐܵܡܹܝܪܝܼܟܬܹܝܢ f du (āmērīktēn)
Asturian: América (ast) f
Azerbaijani: Amerika (az)
Basque: Amerika (eu)
Belarusian: Аме́рыка f (Amjéryka), Амэ́рыка f (Améryka) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: মার্কিন (bn) (markin)
Bulgarian: Аме́рика f (Amérika)
Bunun: Amulika
Burmese: အမေရိက (a.meri.ka.)
Buryat: Америкэ (Amjerike)
Carpathian Rusyn: Аме́рика f (Améryka)
Catalan: Amèrica (ca) f, Amèriques f pl
Chechen: Америка (Amerika)
Cherokee: ᎠᎺᏰᏟ (ameyetli), ᎠᎹᏰᏟ (amayetli)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 美洲 (mei⁵ zau¹), 亞美利加 / 亚美利加 (aa³ mei⁵ lei⁶ gaa¹)

Mandarin: 美洲 (zh) (Měizhōu), 亞美利加 / 亚美利加 (zh) (Yàměilìjiā), 亞美利加洲 / 亚美利加洲 (Yàměilìjiā zhōu)
Corsican: America (co) f, Americhi f pl (rare, dated)
Czech: Amerika (cs) f
Danish: Amerika (da) n
Dutch: Amerika (nl) n
Esperanto: Ameriko (eo)
Estonian: Ameerika (et)
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: Amerikka (fi)
French: Amérique (fr) f, Amériques (fr) f pl
Galician: América (gl) f
Georgian: ამერიკა (ameriḳa)
German: Amerika (de) n
Greek: Αμερική (el) f (Amerikí)
Ancient Greek: Ἀμερικῆ f (Amerikê)
Gujarati: અમેરિકા (amerikā)
Haitian Creole: Amerik f
Haryanvi: अ़मरेख्या
Hawaiian: ʻAmelika
Hebrew: אָמֶרִיקָה (he) f (amérika)
Hindi: अमेरिका (hi) m (amerikā), अमरीका (hi) m (amrīkā)
Hungarian: Amerika (hu)
Icelandic: Ameríka (is) f
Igbo: Amerikas
Indonesian: Amerika (id), benua Amerika
Ingrian: Amerikka
Inuktitut: ᐊᒥᐊᓕᑲ (amialika)
Irish: Meiriceá (ga)
Italian: America (it) f, Americhe (it) f pl (rare, dated)
Jamaican Creole: Amoerka, Amoerkaz pl, Amerika, Amerikaz pl
Japanese: アメリカ州 (アメリカしゅう, Amerika shū), 米州 (ja) (べいしゅう, Beishū), (亜米利加 (ja) (Amerika))
Kabyle: Tamrikt f, Marikan m
Kalenjin: Amerika
Kamba: Amerika
Kannada: ಅಮೆರಿಕ (amerika)
Kazakh: Америка (kk) (Amerika)
Khmer: ទ្វីប អាមេរិក (tviip ’aameirik), អាមេរិក (ʼaameirɨk)
Kikuyu: Amerika
Korean: 아메리카 (ko) (Amerika), 미주(美洲) (ko) (Miju)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئەمەریکا (emerîka)

Northern Kurdish: Amerîka (ku) f
Kyrgyz: Америка (ky) (Amerika)
Ladin: please add this translation if you can
Ladino: Amerika
Lakota: Khéya Wíta
Lao: ອະເມລິກາ (ʼa mē li kā), ອາເມລິກາ (ʼā mē li kā), ທະວີບອະເມລິກາ (tha wīpʼa mē li kā), ທະວີບ ອາເມລິກາ (tha wīpʼā mē li kā)
Latin: Amerī̆ca (la) f (New Latin)
Latvian: Amerika f
Lithuanian: Amerika (lt) f
Livonian: Amērik
Lü: ᦀᦵᦙᦟᦲᧉᦂᦱ (˙ʼmelii²k̇aa)
Louisiana Creole: Amérik f, Lamérik f
Luhya: Amerika, Amerika
Luo: Amerika
Macedonian: Аме́рика (mk) f (Amérika)
Malay: Amerika (ms)
Malayalam: അമേരിക്ക (ml) (amērikka)
Maltese: l-Amerika f
Maori: Amerika
Maranao: Amirika
Marathi: अमेरिका m (amerikā)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: Америке (Amerike)
Marshallese: Amedka
Meru: Amerika
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Америк (Amerik)

Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠧᠷᠢᠺᠠ (amērika)
Moore: Ameriki
Navajo: Kéyah dah siʼánígíí
Norman: Améthique f, Améthiques f pl
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Amerika (no) n

Nynorsk: Amerika n
Occitan: America (oc) f
Odia: ଆମେରିକା (āmerikā)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Амєрїка f (Amerika)

Glagolitic: Ⰰⰿⰵⱃⰻⰽⰰ f (Amerika)
Ossetian: Америкӕ (Amerikæ)
Pannonian Rusyn: Америка f (Amerika)
Pashto: امريکا (ps) f (amrikā)
Persian:
Dari: اَمْرِیکَا (amrīkā), آمْرِیکَا (āmrīkā)

Iranian Persian: آمْریکا (âmrikâ), اَمْریکا (amrikâ)
Picard: Amérikes f pl, Amérike f
Polish: Ameryka (pl) f
Portuguese: América (pt) f, Américas (pt) f pl
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਅਮਰੀਕਾ (pa) m (amarīkā)
Quechua: Awya Yala
Romanian: America (ro) f
Russian: Аме́рика (ru) f (Amérika)
Réunion Creole French: Amérik f
Sanskrit: अमरेखिका f (amarekhikā)
Sardinian: Amèrica f, Amèricas f pl (rare, dated)
Scots: Americae, Americaes pl
Scottish Gaelic: Aimeireaga f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Амѐрика f

Roman: Amèrika (sh) f
Sicilian: Mèrica (scn) f
Silesian: Amerika f
Sinhalese: ඇමරිකාව (si) (æmarikāwa)
Slovak: Amerika (sk) f
Slovene: Amêrika (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Amerika f

Upper Sorbian: Amerika f
Spanish: América (es) f
Swahili: Amerika (sw)
Swedish: Amerika (sv) n
Tagalog: Amerika (tl)
Tajik: Амрико (tg) (Amriko)
Tamil: அமெரிக்கா (ta) (amerikkā)
Tatar: Америка (Amerika)
Telugu: అమెరికా (te) (amerikā)
Thai: ทวีป อเมริกา (tá-wîip à-mee-rí-gaa), อเมริกา (th) (à-mee-rí-gaa)
Tibetan: ཨ་མེ་རི་ཀ (a me ri ka)
Tigrinya: ኣመሪካ (ʾamärika)
Turkish: Amerika (tr)
Turkmen: Amerika
Ukrainian: Аме́рика f (Améryka)
Urdu: اَمْرِیکَہ m (amrīka), اَمْرِیکا m (amrīkā)
Uyghur: ئامېرىكا (amërika)
Uzbek: Amerika (uz)
Veps: Amerik
Vietnamese: Châu Mỹ (vi) (洲美), Mỹ Lợi Gia, Mỹ (vi)
Volapük: Merop (vo), (obsolete) Melop
Võro: Ameeriga
Votic: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: yr Amerig f
West Frisian: Amearika (fy) n, Amerika (fy) n
Yakut: Америка (Amerika)
Yiddish: אַמעריקע f (amerike)
Yup'ik: Ami'ulikaq
Zhuang: Meijcouh

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