Amazonas

See also: amazonas

English

Etymology

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

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.

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)

See also

Divisions of the Federative Republic of Brazil in English (layout · text)

States: Acre · Alagoas · Amapá · Amazonas · Bahia · Ceará · Espírito Santo · Goias · 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

Federal District: Federal District

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amaˈt͡soːnas/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Amazonas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Amazonas)

1. Amazon (a river in South America)

Declension

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

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

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

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):

  (file)

Proper noun

Amazonas m or f pl

1. Amazon (a river in northern South America)
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)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Amazonas.

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): (Spain) /amaˈθonas/ [a.maˈθo.nas]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /amaˈsonas/ [a.maˈso.nas]
• 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