Curitiba

English

Map of Brazil with the location of Curitiba in red

Proper noun

Curitiba

A municipality, the capital of the state of Paraná, Brazil.

Translations

State capital of Paraná

Abkhaz: Цуритиба (Curiṭibā)
Arabic: كوريتيبا‎‎
Armenian: Կուրիտիբա (Kuritiba)
Avar: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
Aymara: Kuritiwa
Bambara: Kuritiba
Bashkir: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
Belarusian: Курыціба (Kuryciba)
Bishnupriya Manipuri: কুরিটিবা
Bulgarian: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
Chechen: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
Chinese: 庫里奇巴 (Kùlǐtíbā)
Chuvash: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
Crimean Tatar: Kuritiba
Esperanto: Kuritibo
Finnish: Curitiba
French: Curitiba
Georgian: კურიტიბა (ḳuriṭiba)
Greek: Κουριτίμπα (Kouritímpa)
Greenlandic: Kuritiba
Guaraní: Kury'ityba
Hawaiian: Kuritiba
Hebrew: קוריטיבה‎‎
Japanese: クリチバ (Kurichiba)
Kabyle: Kuriṭiba

Kalmyk: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
Korean: 쿠리치바 (Kurichiba)
Latvian: Kuritiba
Lithuanian: Kuritiba
Macedonian: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
Navajo: Koritiba
Pashto: كوريتيبا‎‎
Polish: Kurytyba (pl)
Portuguese: Curitiba (pt)
Russian: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
Samogitian: Kuritiba
Serbo-Croatian: Куритиба
Spanish: Curitiba (es)
Sundanese: Kuritiba
Syriac: ܩܘܪܝܛܝܒܐ‎‎
Tajik: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
Thai: กูรีตีบา
Turkish: Curitiba
Turkmen: Kurytyba
Ukrainian: Куритиба (Kurytyba)
Urdu: كوريتيبا‎‎
Venda: Kuritiba
Yiddish: קוריטיבאַ‎‎ (kuritiba)
Yoruba: Kurytyba
Zazaki: Kuritiba

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Coritiba (archaic)
Curityba (obsolete)
Corityba (obsolete)

Etymology

Uncertain. Suggested derivations include:

Old Tupi curé / coré (“pig”) + tyba (“abundance”)
Old Tupi curi (“Paraná pine”) + tyba (“abundance”)
Guaraní Kuri'yty, corruption of Kuri'yndy (“grove of Paraná pines”)^[1]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuɾiˈt͡ʃibɐ/
(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾiˈtibɐ/
Rhymes: -iba

Proper noun

Curitiba f

Curitiba (a city, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil)

References

↑ 2006, João Carlos Vicente Ferreira, Municípios paranaenses: origens e significados de seus nomes.

Spanish

Proper noun

Curitiba f

Curitiba (a municipality, the capital of the state of Paraná, Brazil)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.