Nicaraguan

See also: nicaraguan

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English Nicaragua

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Latin -nus

Latin -ānus

Old French -ainder.

Middle English -an

English -an

English Nicaraguan

From Nicaragua + -an.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

Nicaraguan (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Nicaragua or the people of Nicaragua.
   • 2024 August 19, Adam Pourahmadi and Avery Schmitz, “Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Widespread anti-regime protests in 2018 were also met with brutal force, with Nicaraguan security forces killing hundreds of people, injuring thousands and arbitrarily detaining many, according to Human Rights Watch. Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled the country.

Derived terms

• Nicaraguanness
• Nicaraguan Revolution
• Nicaraguan Sign Language

Translations

pertaining to Nicaragua

• Asturian: nicaraguanu (ast)
• Catalan: nicaragüenc (ca)
• Czech: nikaragujský (cs)
• Dutch: Nicaraguaans (nl)
• Finnish: nicaragualainen (fi)
• French: nicaraguayen (fr)
• Galician: nicaraguano (gl)
• German: nicaraguanisch (de)
• Greek: νικαραγουανός m (nikaragouanós)
• Irish: Nicearaguach
• Italian: nicaraguense, nicaraguegno
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nicaraguansk

  Nynorsk: nicaraguansk (nn)

• Polish: nikaraguański (pl)
• Portuguese: nicaraguense (pt)
• Romanian: nicaraguan (ro)
• Russian: никарагуа́нский (ru) (nikaraguánskij)
• Spanish: nicaragüense (es), pinolero (es) (informal)
• Swahili: Kinikaragwa
• Swedish: nicaraguansk (sv)
• Tagalog: Nikaraguwense, Nikaragwenyo
• Welsh: Nicaragwaidd

Noun

Nicaraguan (plural Nicaraguans)

1. A person from Nicaragua or of Nicaraguan descent.
   • 2024 August 19, Adam Pourahmadi and Avery Schmitz, “Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Widespread anti-regime protests in 2018 were also met with brutal force, with Nicaraguan security forces killing hundreds of people, injuring thousands and arbitrarily detaining many, according to Human Rights Watch. Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled the country.

Translations

person from Nicaragua

• Asturian: nicaraguanu (ast) m, nicaraguana (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: nikaraqualı
• Catalan: nicaragüenc (ca) m, nicaragüenca (ca) f
• Czech: Nikaragujec (cs) m
• Dutch: Nicaraguaan (nl) m, Nicaraguaanse (nl) f
• Esperanto: nikaragvano (man or woman), nikaragvanino (woman)
• Finnish: nicaragualainen (fi)
• French: Nicaraguayen (fr) m, Nicaraguayenne (fr) f
• Galician: nicaraguano (gl) m
• German: Nicaraguaner (de) m, Nicaraguanerin (de) f
• Greek: Νικαραγουανός m (Nikaragouanós)
• Irish: Nicearaguach m
• Italian: nicaraguense, nicaraguegno
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nicaraguaner m

  Nynorsk: nicaraguan (nn) m, nicaraguanar (nn) m

• Portuguese: nicaraguense (pt) m or f
• Romanian: nicaraguan (ro) m, nicaraguană (ro) f
• Russian: никарагуа́нец (ru) m (nikaraguánec), никарагуа́нка (ru) f (nikaraguánka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Никарагва́нац m

  Latin: Nikaragvánac (sh) m

• Spanish: nicaragüense (es), pinolero (es) (informal)
• Swahili: Mnikaragwa (sw)
• Tagalog: Nikaraguwense, Nikaragwenyo
• Turkish: Nikaragualı (tr)

Finnish

Proper noun

Nicaraguan

1. genitive singular of Nicaragua