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English
Etymology
From French Canada , from the Laurentian kanata ( “ village, settlement ” ) (compare Onondaga ganataa ), ultimately from Proto-North Iroquoian *-nat- . See also "Name of Canada" on English Wikipedia .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Canada (countable and uncountable , plural Canadas )
A country in North America .
2015 , Chigozie Obioma , The Fishermen , ONE, page 219 :Father narrated the story of how Canada developed over a short period to surpass other countries, including Britain, from which it had emerged.
( historical ) Lower Canada 1791–1840 (also Canada East 1840–1867, now province of Quebec ) or respectively Upper Canada (Canada West , now province of Ontario ), often “the Canadas ” (or politically, “United Canada ” 1840–1867).
( historical ) (1608–1763) The most active province of New France . Nowadays corresponds to the territory of much of Quebec, Ontario, and several US states (aligning with the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa River plains and Great Lakes plains, and Laurentians )
A surname .
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Translations
country in North America
Abenaki: Kanada
Abkhaz: Канада ( Kʼanada )
Adyghe: Канадэ ( Kanadɛ )
Afrikaans: Kanada (af)
Akan: Kanada
Albanian: Kanada (sq) f , Kanadaja f ( definite )
Alemannic German: Kanada n
Amharic: ካናዳ ( kanada )
Arabic: كَنَدَا (ar) f ( kanadā ) , كَنَدَة (ar) f ( kanada ) ( archaic )
Aragonese: Canadá m
Aramaic: ܩܢܕܐ ( qanadā )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܲܢܲܕܵܐ f ( kānāda ) , ܩܲܢܲܕܵܐ f ( qānāda )
Armenian: Կանադա (hy) ( Kanada )
Assamese: কানাডা ( kanada )
Asturian: Canadá (ast) m
Atikamekw: Kanata
Azerbaijani: Kanada (az)
Bashkir: Канада ( Kanada )
Basque: Kanada (eu)
Bavarian: Kanada
Belarusian: Кана́да f ( Kanáda )
Bengali: কানাডা (bn) ( kanaḍa )
Bislama: Kanada
Blackfoot: Canada
Breton: Kanada (br)
Bulgarian: Кана́да (bg) f ( Kanáda )
Burmese: ကနေဒါ ( ka.neda )
Buryat: Канада ( Kanada )
Catalan: Canadà (ca)
Cebuano: Canada
Chinese:
Cantonese: 加拿大 (yue) ( gaa1 naa4 daai6 )
Eastern Min: 加拿大 ( Gă-nā-dâi )
Hakka: 加拿大 ( Kâ-nâ-thai )
Hokkien: 加拿大 ( Ka-ná-tāi )
Mandarin: 加拿大 (zh) ( Jiānádà )
Wu: 加拿大 ( 1 ka-na-da)
Chuvash: Канада ( Kanada )
Cornish: Kanada
Cree: ᑳᓇᑕ ( kaanata )
Plains Cree: ᑳᓇᑕ ( kânata )
Czech: Kanada (cs) f
Danish: Canada (da) n
Dhivehi: ކެނެޑާ ( keneḍā )
Dutch: Canada (nl) n
Dzongkha: ཀེ་ན་ཌ་ ( ke na ḍa )
Esperanto: Kanado (eo)
Estonian: Kanada (et)
Farefare: Kanada
Faroese: Kanada n
Finnish: Kanada (fi)
French: Canada (fr) m
Galician: Canadá (gl) m
Georgian: კანადა (ka) ( ḳanada )
German: Kanada (de) n
Greek: Καναδάς (el) m ( Kanadás )
Ancient Greek: Καναδᾶς m ( Kanadâs )
Greenlandic: Kanata
Guaraní: Kanatã , Kanatã
Gujarati: કેનેડા ( keneḍā )
Haitian Creole: Kanada
Hausa: Kyanadà f
Hawaiian: Kanakā
Hebrew: קָנָדָּה (he) f ( kánada )
Hindi: कनाडा (hi) m ( kanāḍā )
Hungarian: Kanada (hu)
Icelandic: Kanada (is) n
Ido: Kanada (io)
Igbo: Canada
Ilocano: Canada
Indonesian: Kanada (id)
Ingrian: Kanada
Interlingua: Canada
Inuktitut: ᑲᓇᑕ (iu) ( kanata )
Inupiaq: Canada , Kanata
Inuvialuktun: Kanata ( Kanata )
Irish: Ceanada m
Italian: Canada (it) m
Japanese: カナダ (ja) ( Kanada ) , 加奈陀 (ja) ( Kanada )
Javanese: Kanada
Kalenjin: (please verify ) k
Kamba: Kanada
Kannada: ಕೆನಡಾ (kn) ( kenaḍā )
Kapampangan: Canada
Kazakh: Канада (kk) ( Kanada )
Khmer: កាណាដា (km) ( kaanaadaa )
Korean: 캐나다 (ko) ( Kaenada ) , 가나다(加那陀) (ko) ( Ganada ) , 카나다 (ko) ( Kanada ) ( North Korea )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کەنەدا ( keneda )
Northern Kurdish: Keneda (ku)
Kyrgyz: Канада (ky) ( Kanada )
Lakota: Uŋčíyapi Makȟóčhe ( literally “ Grandmother's country ” )
Lao: ການາດາ ( kā nā dā )
Latin: Canada (la) f
Latvian: Kanāda (lv) f
Limburgish: Kanneda (li) n
Lingala: Kanadá
Lithuanian: Kanada (lt) f
Low German:
German Low German: Kanada (nds) n
Lower Sorbian: Kanada
Luo: Kanada
Luxembourgish: Kanada (lb) n
Macedonian: Канада (mk) f ( Kanada )
Malay: Kanada (ms)
Malayalam: കാനഡ ( kānaḍa )
Maltese: il-Kanada f
Manx: Yn Chanadey
Marathi: कॅनडा ( kĕnḍā )
Mi'kmaq: Ganata
Michif: Canada
Mohawk: Kaná:ta
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Канад (mn) ( Kanad )
Mongolian: ᠻᠠᠨᠠᠳᠠ ( kanada )
Montagnais: Kanata
Nahuatl: Canauhtlān
Nauruan: Canada
Navajo: Deeteel bikéyah
Neapolitan: Canadà
Nepali: क्यानाडा (ne) ( kyānāḍā )
Norman: Cannada m
Northern East Cree: ᑳᐦᓈᑖᐦ ( kaanata )
Northern Sami: Kanáda
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Canada (no) n , Kanada (no) n
Nynorsk: Canada (nn) n , Kanada (nn) n
Occitan: Canadà (oc) m
Odia: କାନାଡ଼ା ( kānāṛā )
Ojibwe: Zhaaganaashiiwaki , Gaanada
Oromo: Canada (om)
Ossetian: Канадӕ ( Kanadæ )
Pashto: کاناډا (ps) f ( kānāḍā )
Persian: کانادا (fa) ( kânâdâ )
Piedmontese: Canadà
Polish: Kanada (pl) f
Portuguese: Canadá (pt) m
Punjabi:
Eastern Punjabi: ਕੈਨੇਡਾ ( kaineḍā )
Western Punjabi: کینیڈا ( kenīḍā ) , کنیڈا m ( knaeḍā )
Quechua: Kanada
Rarotongan: Kanata
Romanian: Canada (ro) f
Russian: Кана́да (ru) f ( Kanáda )
Samoan: Kanata
Samogitian: Kanada
Sanskrit: केनडा ( kenaḍā )
Santali: ᱠᱟᱱᱟᱰᱟ ( kanaḍa )
Scots: Canadae
Scottish Gaelic: Canada
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ка̀нада f
Roman: Kànada (sh) f
Severn Ojibwa: ᑲᓇᑕ ( kānata )
Sicilian: Canadà m
Sindhi: ڪئناڊا
Sinhalese: කැනඩාව (si) ( kænaḍāwa )
Slovak: Kanada (sk) f
Slovene: Kȃnada (sl) f
Somali: Canada
Sotho: Kanada
Spanish: Canadá (es) m
Stoney: Wida Tâga
Swahili: Kanada (sw)
Swedish: Kanada (sv) n
Tagalog: Kanada
Tahitian: Tanata
Tajik: Канада (tg) ( Kanada ) , Конодо (tg) ( Konodo )
Tamil: கனடா (ta) ( kaṉaṭā )
Tatar: Канада ( Qanada )
Telugu: కెనడా (te) ( kenaḍā )
Tetum: Kanadá
Thai: แคนาดา (th) ( kɛɛ-naa-daa )
Tibetan: ཁ་ནའ་ཏ ( kha na' ta )
Tigrinya: ካናዳ ( kanada )
Tok Pisin: Kanada
Tongan: Kānata
Tsonga: Canada
Turkish: Kanada (tr)
Turkmen: Kanada
Ukrainian: Кана́да (uk) f ( Kanáda )
Urdu: کَینیڈا m ( kaineḍā ) , کَناڈا m ( kanāḍā )
Uyghur: كانادا ( kanada )
Uzbek: Kanada (uz)
Venetan: Canada
Veps: Kanad
Vietnamese: Ca-na-đa , Gia Nã Đại (vi) (加拿大 )
Volapük: Kanadän (vo)
Welsh: Canada (cy)
West Frisian: Kanada (fy)
Wolof: Kanadaa
Yiddish: קאַנאַדע f ( kanade )
Yoruba: Kánádà
Zhuang: Gyahnazda
Zulu: IKhanada
Noun
Canada (plural Canadas )
( US , informal ) A country bordering a larger country that shares many similarities with it, but is overshadowed by the more prominent larger.
2015 , Michael DeMocker, The land of waffles, frites, chocolate, meat and, oh yes, culture , Louisiana: The Times-Picayune, page 1:Belgium is France's Canada .
See also
(countries of North America ) country of North America ; Antigua and Barbuda , Bahamas , Barbados , Belize , Canada , Costa Rica , Cuba , Dominica , Dominican Republic , El Salvador , Grenada , Haiti , Honduras , Jamaica , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Saint Kitts and Nevis , Saint Lucia , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , Trinidad and Tobago , United States of America
(provinces of Canada ) province of Canada ; Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , New Brunswick , Newfoundland and Labrador , Nova Scotia , Ontario , Prince Edward Island , Quebec , Saskatchewan (Category: en:Provinces of Canada )
(territories of Canada ) territory of Canada ; Northwest Territories , Nunavut , Yukon (Category: en:Territories of Canada )
References
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
Canada
Canada (a country in North America )
Dutch
Etymology
Probably borrowed from French Canada .
The hamlet is attested as Canada in 1954. It was named after the country. Originally the name of a farmhouse.
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈkɑ.naːˌdaː/
Hyphenation: Ca‧na‧da
Proper noun
Canada n
Canada (a country in North America )
A hamlet in Ooststellingwerf , Friesland , Netherlands
Derived terms
References
van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018 ) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
Franco-Provençal
Proper noun
Canada ?
Canada (a country in North America )
French
Etymology
From the Laurentian kanata ( “ village, settlement ” ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Canada m
Canada (a country in North America )
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
(countries of North America ) pays de l'Amérique du Nord ; Antigua-et-Barbuda , Bahamas , Barbade , Canada , Cuba , Dominique , États-Unis , Grenade , Haïti , Jamaïque , Mexique , République dominicaine , Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès , Saint-Vincent-et-Grenadines , Sainte-Lucie , Trinité-et-Tobago (Category: fr:Countries in North America )
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French Canada .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Canada m
Canada (a country in North America )
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From French Canada , from Laurentian kanata ( “ village, settlement ” ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Canada f sg (genitive Canadae ) ; first declension ( New Latin )
Canada (a country in North America )
( historical ) New France
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Canada
Canada (a country in North America )
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Canada
Canada (a country in North America )
Derived terms
Romanian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Canada f
Canada (a country in North America )
Declension
gender f
uncountable
Nom/Acc
Canada
Gen/Dat
Canadei
Sardinian
Proper noun
Canada ?
Canada (a country in North America )
Scottish Gaelic
Proper noun
Canada m
Canada (a country in North America )
Tha Loch Lùthaise ann an Canada . Lake Louise is in Canada.
Swedish
Proper noun
Canada n (genitive Canadas )
Dated spelling of Kanada ( “ Canada ” ) .
Venetan
Proper noun
Canada m
Canada (a country in North America )
Welsh
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Canada f
Canada (a country in North America )
Coordinate terms
(countries of North America ) gwledydd Gogledd America ; Antigwa a Barbiwda , y Bahamas , Barbados , Canada , Ciwba , Dominica , Grenada , Gweriniaeth Dominica , Haiti , Jamaica , Mecsico , Sant Kitts-Nevis , Sant Lwsia , Sant Vincent a'r Grenadines , Trinidad a Thobago , Unol Daleithiau America
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.