Nicaragua

Borrowed from Spanish Nicaragua, from Nicarao (“a native name”) +‎ agua (“Spanish for water”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌnɪk.əˈɹæɡ.ju.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnɪk.əˈɹɑ.ɡwə/

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Nicaragua

2. A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Nicaragua. Capitalː Managua.
   • 2024 August 19, Adam Pourahmadi and Avery Schmitz, “Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Civil liberties in Nicaragua have shrunk dramatically under the longtime leadership of authoritarian President Daniel Ortega, who claimed a fifth term in 2021.

• Nicaraguan
• Nicaragua wood

• Managua

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

• nicaraguanu

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ni.kəˈɾa.ɣwə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ni.kaˈɾa.ɣwa]

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Nicaragua f

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

• nicaragüenc

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

• nicaraguaner
• nicaraguansk

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Nicaragua ? n

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

From Spanish Nicaragua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnikɑrɑɡuɑ/, [ˈnikɑ̝ˌrɑ̝ɡuɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡuɑ

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

• Nikaragua

• IPA^(key): /nikaˈʁaːɡua/

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Nicaragua n (proper noun, genitive Nicaraguas or (optionally with an article) Nicaragua)

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

• Nicaraguaner
• nicaraguanisch
• Nicaraguasee

• IPA^(key): [ˈnikɒrɒɡuɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ca‧ra‧gua
• Rhymes: -ɒ

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America; official name: Nicaraguai Köztársaság)

• nicaraguai

• IPA^(key): /ni.kaˈra.ɡwa/
• Rhymes: -aɡwa
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ca‧rà‧gua

Nicaragua f

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

• nicaraguense

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɪ.kaˈra.ɡu.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ni.kaˈraː.ɡu.a]

Nicaragua f sg (genitive Nicaraguae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

First-declension noun, singular only.

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

• nicaraguaner
• nicaraguansk

Nicaragua

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

• nicaraguan, nicaraguanar
• nicaraguansk

Unknown. One theory is that it was coined by Spanish colonists based upon the name of the local chief at that time, Classical Nahuatl Nicarao (“Nicarao”) + agua (“water”). Another is that it may have meant ‘surrounded by water’ in an indigenous language. (This could either be a reference to its two large freshwater lakes, Lake Nicaragua and Lake Managua, or to the fact that it bounded on the east and the west by oceans.)

• IPA^(key): /nikaˈɾaɡwa/ [ni.kaˈɾa.ɣ̞wa]

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• Rhymes: -aɡwa
• Syllabification: Ni‧ca‧ra‧gua

Nicaragua f

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
   • 2025 May 30, Maxime Tamsett, “Arrestan a más de 100 personas en “operación de control” migratorio en un sitio de construcción en Florida, según HSI”, in CNN en Español‎^[2]:

     Los detenidos eran “de México, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia y Honduras”, de acuerdo con la publicación de HSI Tampa.

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Nicaragua n (genitive Nicaraguas)

1. Nicaragua (a country in Central America)

• nicaraguan
• nicaraguansk
• nicaraguanska

• Nicaragua in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH