English
Etymology
From Spanish Caymanes, variant of earlier Spanish Lagartos in reference to the early prevalence of marine and freshwater crocodiles on the islands. Spanish caimán and Portuguese caimão are of uncertain etymology, being variously attributed to Taíno kaimán, Kari'na acayouman, and Kongo.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
the Cayman Islands
- Three islands constituting an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean Sea.
- (metonymic) Offshore bank accounts based in the Cayman Islands.
- (figuratively, by extension) Tax havens.
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Derived terms
Translations
British territory in the Caribbean
- Afrikaans: Kaaimanseilande pl
- Albanian: Ishujt Cayman
- Arabic: جُزُر كَايْمَان f pl (juzur kāymān)
- Armenian: Կայմանյան կղզիներ (Kaymanyan kġziner)
- Asturian: Islles Caimán (ast)
- Azerbaijani: Kayman adaları (az)
- Basque: Kaiman uharteak
- Bavarian: Kaimaninseln f pl
- Belarusian: Кайма́навы астравы m pl (Kajmánavy astravy)
- Breton: Inizi Cayman (br)
- Bulgarian: Кайманови острови m pl (Kajmanovi ostrovi)
- Catalan: Illes Caiman f pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 開曼群島 / 开曼群岛 (zh) (Kāimàn Qúndǎo), 凱門群島 / 凯门群岛 (Kǎimén Qúndǎo)
- Czech: Kajmanské ostrovy (cs) m pl
- Danish: Caymanøerne
- Dutch: Kaaimaneilanden (nl) pl, Caymaneilanden (nl) pl
- Esperanto: Kajmaninsuloj
- Estonian: Kaimanisaared pl
- Finnish: Caymansaaret (fi)
- French: îles Caïmans (fr) f pl, îles Caïmanes (fr) f pl
- Galician: Illas Caimán f pl
- Georgian: კაიმანის კუნძულები (ḳaimanis ḳunʒulebi)
- German: Kaimaninseln f pl
- Alemannic German: Kaimaninsle f pl
- Greek: Νησιά Κέυμαν n pl (Nisiá Kéyman)
- Hebrew: איי קיימן (iyey kayman)
- Hungarian: Kajmán-szigetek (hu)
- Indonesian: Kepulauan Cayman
- Interlingua: Insulas Cayman
- Irish: Oileáin Cayman m pl
- Italian: Isole Cayman f pl
- Jamaican Creole: Kieman Ailanz pl
- Japanese: ケイマン諸島 (Keiman shotō)
- Korean: 케이맨 제도 (Keimaen jedo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: Giravên Kaymanê (ku)
- Latvian: Kaimanu salas f pl
- Lithuanian: Kaimãnai (lt) m pl, Kaimãnų Sãlos
- Macedonian: Кајмански Острови pl (Kajmanski Ostrovi)
- Malay: Kepulauan Cayman
- Maltese: il-Gżejjer Cayman
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Caymanøyene
- Nynorsk: Caymanøyane
- Polish: Kajmany (pl)
- Portuguese: Ilhas Cayman (pt) f pl
- Romanian: Cayman, Insulele Cayman f pl
- Russian: Кайма́новы острова́ m pl (Kajmánovy ostrová)
- Scots: Cayman Islands pl
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Кајмански отоци, Кајманска Острва n pl
- Roman: Kajmanski otoci, Kajmanska Ostrva n pl
- Slovak: Kajmanie ostrovy m pl
- Slovene: Kajmanji otoki m pl
- Spanish: Islas Caimán (es) f pl
- Swedish: Caymanöarna (sv)
- Turkish: Cayman Adaları (tr) pl
- Ukrainian: Кайма́нові Острови́ m pl (Kajmánovi Ostrový)
- Walloon: Iyreyes Cayimans pl
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See also
- Appendix:Countries of the world