Dominican Republic

English

Etymology

Calque of Spanish República Dominicana, in honor of santo (“holy; saint”) Domingo, which could refer to a Sunday, Jesus, or St Dominic.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɒmˌɪn.ɪ.kən ɹɪˈpʌb.lɪk/
(US) IPA^(key): /doʊˌmɪn.ɪ.kən ɹəˈpʌb.lɪk/
Audio (US) (file)

Proper noun

the Dominican Republic

A country in the Caribbean. Capital: Santo Domingo

Derived terms

Dominican Republican

Translations

country in the Caribbean

Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة اَلدُّومِنِيكَان f (jumhuriyya d-duminikān)
Armenian: Դոմինիկյան Հանրապետություն (hy) (Dominikyan Hanrapetutʿyun)
Belarusian: Дамініка́нская Рэспу́бліка f (Daminikánskaja Respúblika)
Bengali: ডোমিনিকান প্রজাতন্ত্র (bn) (ḍōminikan projatontro)
Breton: Republik Dominikan
Bulgarian: Доминика́нска репу́блика f (Dominikánska repúblika)
Burmese: ဒိုမီနီကန်သမ္မတ (duiminikansamma.ta.)
Catalan: República Dominicana (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 多米尼加共和國／多米尼加共和国 (zh) (Duōmǐníjiā gònghéguó)
Czech: Dominikánská republika (cs) f
Danish: Dominikanske Republik
Dutch: Dominicaanse Republiek (nl) f
Esperanto: Domingo (eo), Dominika Respubliko
Estonian: Dominikaani Vabariik
Faroese: Dominikalýðveldið n
Finnish: Dominikaaninen tasavalta (fi)
French: République dominicaine (fr)
Galician: República Dominicana (gl) f
Georgian: დომინიკელთა რესპუბლიკა (dominiḳelta resṗubliḳa)
German: Dominikanische Republik (de) f
Greek: Δομινικανή Δημοκρατία (el) f (Dominikaní Dimokratía)
Hebrew: הרפובליקה הדומיניקנית f (ha-republika ha-dominikanit)
Hindi: दोमिनिकन गणराज्य (dominikan gaṇrājya)
Hungarian: Dominikai Köztársaság (hu)
Icelandic: Dóminíska lýðveldið (is)
Interlingua: Republica Dominican
Italian: Repubblica dominicana, (a correct translation) Repubblica Dominicana (it) f
Japanese: ドミニカ共和国 (ja) (Dominika kyōwakoku)
Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋដូមីនីក (km) (saathiərĕəʼnaʼrŏət doumiiniik)
Korean: 도미니카 공화국 (ko) (Dominika gonghwaguk), 도미니까 공화국 (ko) (Dominikka gonghwaguk) (North Korea)
Latvian: Dominikāna f, Dominikānas Republika f
Lithuanian: Dominikos Respublika (lt) f
Macedonian: Доминика́нска Република (mk) f (Dominikánska Republika)
Maltese: ir-Repubblika Dominikana f
Navajo: Domingo bikéyah
Norman: Républyique Dominnicaine f
Norwegian: Den dominikanske republikk
Occitan: Republica Dominicana (oc) f
Persian: جمهوری دومینیکن (jomhuri-ye dominikan)
Polish: Dominikana (pl)
Portuguese: República Dominicana (pt) f
Romanian: Republica Dominicană (ro) f
Russian: Доминика́нская Респу́блика (ru) f (Dominikánskaja Respúblika)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Доминиканска Република f

Roman: Dominikanska Republika (sh) f
Sicilian: Ripùbbrica Duminicana f
Slovak: Dominikánska republika f
Spanish: República Dominicana (es)
Swahili: Jamhuri ya Dominika (sw)
Swedish: Dominikanska republiken (sv)
Thai: สาธารณรัฐโดมินิกัน (th) (sǎa-taa-rá-ná-rát doo-mí-ní-gan)
Tibetan: ཌོ་མི་ནི་ཀན་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ (ḍo mi ni kan spyi mthun rgyal khab)
Turkish: Dominik Cumhuriyeti (tr)
Ukrainian: Домініка́нська Респу́бліка (uk) f (Dominikánsʹka Respúblika)
Vietnamese: Cộng hoà Đô-mi-ni-ca-na, Đô-mi-ni-ca-na, Cộng hòa Dominica
Volapük: Sandominän (vo)
Yoruba: Dòmíníkánì

Dominican Republic

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