Azores

See also: azores and azorés

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Açores (“Azores”), from açores, plural of açor (“goshawk”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /əˈzɔːz/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪzɔːɹz/
Rhymes: -ɔː(r)z

Proper noun

Azores pl

An archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic and an autonomous region of Portugal comprising this archipelago, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores.

Derived terms

Azorean

Translations

an archipelago and an autonomous region

Arabic: اَلْأَزُور‎ (al-ʾazūr)
Armenian: Ազորյան կղզիներ (hy) pl (Azoryan kłziner), Ազորներ pl (Azorner)
Catalan: Açores m pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 亞速爾群島 (zh), 亚速尔群岛 (zh) (Yàsù'ěr qúndǎo)
Czech: Azory (cs) f pl
Danish: Azorerne (da) pl, Acorerne pl
Dutch: azoren (nl)
Finnish: Azorit (fi)
French: les Açores (fr) f pl
Galician: Azores m pl
German: die Azoren (de) f pl
Greek: Αζόρες f pl (Azóres)
Hindi: अज़ोरेस (azores)
Hungarian: Azori-szigetek (hu)

Interlingua: le Azores pl
Interlingue: li Azores
Irish: na hAsóir m
Italian: le Azzorre f pl
Japanese: アゾレス諸島 (Azoresu shotō)
Korean: 아조레스 제도 (Ajoreseu jedo)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Asorene, (Riksmål) Azorene

Nynorsk: Asorane
Polish: Azory (pl) pl
Portuguese: os Açores (pt) m pl
Russian: Азо́рские острова́ (ru) m pl (Azórskije ostrová), Азо́ры (ru) pl (Azóry)
Spanish: las Azores (es) f pl
Swedish: Azorerna (sv) pl
Volapük: Lazoruäns (vo)

Further reading

Azores on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

Erazos

Interlingua

Proper noun

le Azores pl

the Azores

Spanish

Proper noun

Azores f pl

the Azores
Fuimos a las Azores. ― We went to the Azores.

See also

Appendix:Place names in Portugal

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