Amazonas

See also: amazonas

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Amazonas and Spanish Amazonas, related to English Amazon.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Amazonas

1. A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Manaus.
2. A department of Colombia.
3. A region of Peru.
4. A state of Venezuela.

Coordinate terms

states of Braziledit

• Acre
• Alagoas
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Espírito Santo
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraíba
• Paraná
• Pernambuco
• Piauí
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Norte
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Rondônia
• Roraima
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo
• Sergipe
• Tocantins

Translations

state of Brazil

Albanian: Amazonas Arabic: اَلْأَمَازُونْ (al-ʔamāzūn), أَمَازُونَاسْ (ʔamāzūnās) Armenian: Ամազոնաս (hy) (Amazonas) Azerbaijani: Amazonas Bulgarian: Амазонас (Amazonas), Амазонка (Amazonka) Catalan: Amazones (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 亞馬遜洲 / 亚马逊洲 (ngaa3 maa5 seon3 zau1) Mandarin: 亞馬遜洲 / 亚马逊洲 (Yàmǎxùn-zhōu), 亞馬孫洲 / 亚马孙洲 (Yàmǎsūn-zhōu) Czech: Amazonas (cs) Danish: Amazonas Dutch: Amazonas (nl) Estonian: Amazonas (et) Finnish: Amazonas (fi) French: Amazonas (fr) Georgian: ამაზონასი (amazonasi) German: Amazonas (de) Greek: Αμαζόνας (Amazónas) Hebrew: אַמַזוֹנָאס (amazonas) Hindi: आमेज़ोनास (āmezonās) Hungarian: Amazonas (hu) Icelandic: Amazonas Italian: Amazonas (it) Japanese: アマゾナス州 (Amazonasu-shū) Korean: 아마조나스주 (Amajonaseu-ju) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ئەمازۆن (ckb) (emazon) Latvian: Amazonasa Lithuanian: Amazonė Marathi: अमेझोनास (amejhonās) Norwegian: Bokmål: Amazonas (no) Persian: آمازوناس (âmâzonâs) Polish: Amazonas (pl) Portuguese: Amazonas (pt) Romanian: Amazonas Russian: Амазо́нас (Amazónas) Slovak: Amazonas Spanish: Amazonas (es) Swedish: Amazonas Tamil: அமேசோனாசு (amēcōṉācu) Telugu: అమెజానాస్ (amejānās) Thai: อามาโซนัช (aa-maa-soo-nát) Turkish: Amazonas (tr) Ukrainian: Амазо́нас (Amazónas) Urdu: ایمازوناس (emāzonās) Uzbek: Amazonas Vietnamese: Amazonas

department of Colombia

Danish: Amazonas Marathi: आमासोनास (āmāsonās) Norwegian: Bokmål: Amazonas (no) Portuguese: Amazonas (pt) Spanish: Amazonas (es)

region of Peru

Marathi: आमासोनास (āmāsonās) Norwegian: Bokmål: Amazonas (no) Portuguese: Amazonas (pt) Spanish: Amazonas (es)

state of Venezuela

Marathi: आमासोनास (āmāsonās) Norwegian: Bokmål: Amazonas (no) Portuguese: Amazonas (pt) Spanish: Amazonas (es)

Further reading

• Category:Amazonas on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Amazonas on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Amazonas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amaˈt͡soːnas/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Amazonas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Amazonas)

1. Amazon (a river in South America)

Declension

Declension of Amazonas [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Amazonas
genitive	eines	des	Amazonas
dative	einem	dem	Amazonas
accusative	einen	den	Amazonas

Further reading

• “Amazonas” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Amazonas, Fluss” in Duden online
• “Amazonas, Bundesstaat” in Duden online

Hungarian

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:

Amazonas

Wikipedia ^hu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒmɒzonɒs]
• Hyphenation: Ama‧zo‧nas
• Rhymes: -ɒs

Proper noun

Amazonas

1. Amazon (river)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Amazonas	—
accusative	Amazonast	—
dative	Amazonasnak	—
instrumental	Amazonasszal	—
causal-final	Amazonasért	—
translative	Amazonasszá	—
terminative	Amazonasig	—
essive-formal	Amazonasként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Amazonasban	—
superessive	Amazonason	—
adessive	Amazonasnál	—
illative	Amazonasba	—
sublative	Amazonasra	—
allative	Amazonashoz	—
elative	Amazonasból	—
delative	Amazonasról	—
ablative	Amazonastól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Amazonasé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Amazonaséi	—

Possessive forms of Amazonas

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Amazonasom	—
2nd person sing.	Amazonasod	—
3rd person sing.	Amazonasa	—
1st person plural	Amazonasunk	—
2nd person plural	Amazonasotok	—
3rd person plural	Amazonasuk	—

Derived terms

• amazonasi

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Amazonas

Wikipedia ^no

Proper noun

Amazonas

1. the Amazon, river in South America
2. Amazonas, a state in Brazil
3. Amazonas, a province in Colombia
4. Amazonas, a region in Peru
5. Amazonas, a state in Venezuela

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Amazonas

Wikipedia ^pt

Alternative forms

• Almazonas (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.maˈzõ.nɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.maˈzõ.nɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.maˈzõ.nɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.maˈzo.nas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.mɐˈzo.nɐʃ/

• Audio (Brazil):

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -õnɐs, (Portugal) -onɐʃ
• Homophone: amazonas
• Hyphenation: A‧ma‧zo‧nas

Proper noun

Amazonas m or (archaic) f pl (sometimes plural only, in variation)

1. Amazon (a river in northern South America)
   • 1826, Academia das ciências de Lisboa, Collecçao de noticias para a historia e geografia das naçoes ultramarinas, que vivem nos dominios portuguezes, ou lhes sao visinhas..., Typografia da mesma Academia, page 9:

     Deste canal lança o Amazonas pela terra dentro aquella porção de agoa, que junta com a referida do Akeky fórma o rio deste nome, que dá entrada para o' Amazonas pela bocca do Xingú.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. Amazonas (a state of the North Region, Brazil; capital: Manaus)

   AM (abbreviation)

3. Amazonas (a region of Peru)
4. Amazonas (a department of Colombia)
5. Amazonas (a state of Venezuela)

Related terms

• amazona
• amazonense (demonym)
• Amazônia

See also

states of Brazil: estados do Brasiledit

• Acre
• Alagoas
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Espírito Santo
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraíba
• Paraná
• Pernambuco
• Piauí
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Norte
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Rondônia
• Roraima
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo
• Sergipe
• Tocantins

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Amazonas

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amaˈθonas/ [a.maˈθo.nas] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /amaˈsonas/ [a.maˈso.nas] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -onas
• Syllabification: A‧ma‧zo‧nas

Proper noun

Amazonas m

1. Amazon (a river in Brazil)
2. a state of the North Region, Brazil; capital: Manaus
3. Amazonas (a region of Peru)
4. Amazonas (a department of Colombia)
5. Amazonas (a state of Venezuela)

Derived terms

• amazonense

Descendants

• →⇒ Ye'kwana: Amasonanña