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See also: canada, Canadá, Canadà, cañada, and Ca-na-đa

English

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Canada

Etymology

Borrowed 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

(Canada, UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkænədə/
- Audio (Canada): (file)
- Audio (General American): (file)
- Audio (UK): (file)
(General American, Canada, /æ/ raising) IPA^(key): [kʰɛəɾ̃əɾə] ~ [kʰeənədə]
Hyphenation: Can‧a‧da
Homophone: Kannada (one pronunciation)

Proper noun

Canada (countable and uncountable, plural Canadas)

A country in North America. Capital: Ottawa. Largest city: Toronto.
- 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.
- 2024 November 29, Lex Harvey, “Clashes erupted outside a Hindu temple near Toronto. They’re the latest sign of Canada and India’s spiraling relations”, in CNN‎:
  While the existence of pro-Khalistan factions in Canada has long bothered India and acted as a wedge between the two countries, experts say tensions have sharply escalated under Modi and Trudeau, with little prospect for resolution.
- 2025 January 27, David Charter, “Fafo diplomacy: How Colombia found out Trump meant business”, in The Times‎, archived from the original on 27 January 2025:
  Fafo works with small trading nations such as Colombia because US markets could quickly adapt to the greater expense of its coffee, flowers and other exports. There will be a different order of chaos, though, if Trump follows through on tariffs on the EU (17 per cent of US imports), Mexico (15 per cent), China (14 per cent) or Canada (12 per cent).
(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.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Atlantic Canada
blame Canada
Canada balsam
Canada Bay
Canada buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis)
Canada Day
Canada dogwood = bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
Canada Dry
Canada East = Lower Canada
Canada Games
Canada goldenrod
Canada goose, (Branta canadensis)
Canada Indian
Canada jay = grey jay
Canada lily (Lilium canadense)
Canada lynx (Felis canadensis)
Canada mayflower = wild lily of the valley (Maianthemum canadense)
Canada onion
Canada Pension Plan
Canadaphobia
Canada plum (Prunus nigra and its fruit)
Canada poplar = Carolina poplar (Populus × canadensis)
Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
Canada Post
Canada Post Corporation
Canada Revenue Agency
Canada rice (Zizania palustris or Zizania aquatica)
Canadarm
Canada robin = cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
Canada root
Canada Savings Bond
Canada thistle (Circium arvense)
Canada violet (Viola canadensis)
Canada West = Upper Canada
Canada yew = ground hemlock (Taxus canadensis)
Canadian
Canadiana
Canadianism
Canadianist
Canadianize
Canadiano
Canadien
Canadienne
Canajan
Canajun
Central Canada = Central Provinces
Cronkhite-Canada syndrome
English Canada
French Canada
Lower Canada
Maritime Canada
O Canada
Province of Canada
Revenue Canada
United Province of Canada
Upper Canada

Related terms

Descendants

French: canadair
Greek: καναντέρ (kanantér)
Italian: canadair
Japanese: カナダ
Serbo-Croatian: kanader

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 (¹ka-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 [Queen Victoria'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.

References

Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “Canada”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Jacques Cartier (1545), Relation originale de Jacques Cartier, Paris: Tross [1863], p 48.

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Canada

Canada (a country in North America)

Dutch

Alternative forms

Kanada (dated, superseded)

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/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: Ca‧na‧da

Proper noun

Canada n

Canada (a country in North America)
a hamlet in Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands

Derived terms

Canadees
Canadameer

References

van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

Franco-Provençal

Franco-Provençal Wikipedia has an article on:

Canada

Wikipedia ^frp

Proper noun

Canada ?

Canada (a country in North America)

French

Etymology

From the Laurentian kanata (“village, settlement”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ka.na.da/
- Audio (Paris): (file)
(Canada) IPA^(key): /ka.na.da/ ~ /ka.na.dɑ/
- Audio; [ka.naˈdɑ]: (file)
- Audio; [ka.naˈdɔ]: (file)
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