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English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈɹuː.bə/
Audio (UK): (file)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -uːbə

Proper noun

Aruba

An island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea.
- 1988, “Kokomo”, in Still Cruisin', performed by The Beach Boys:
  Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya / Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
A Meitei surname from Manipuri

Derived terms

Arubian

Translations

territory in the Caribbean

Afrikaans: Aruba
Antillean Creole: Awouba f
Arabic: أَرُوبَا f (ʔarūbā)
Asturian: Aruba (ast)
Breton: Aruba
Bulgarian: Аруба (Aruba)
Catalan: Aruba f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 阿魯巴 / 阿鲁巴 (zh) (Ālǔba)
Czech: Aruba (cs) f
Danish: Aruba
Dutch: Aruba (nl) n
Esperanto: Arubo
Finnish: Aruba (fi)
French: Aruba (fr) f
Georgian: არუბა (ka) (aruba)
German: Aruba (de) n
Greek: Αρούμπα (el) f (Aroúmpa)
Hebrew: אָרוּבָּה (he) (aruba)
Hindi: अरूबा (hi) (arūbā)
Hungarian: Aruba (hu)
Interlingua: Aruba
Irish: Arúba m
Italian: Aruba (it) f
Japanese: アルバ (ja) (Aruba)
Korean: 아루바 (Aruba)
Latin: Aruba f
Macedonian: Ару́ба f (Arúba)
Malay: Aruba
Maltese: Aruba
Norman: Aruba (Jersey)
North Frisian: Aruuba
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Aruba

Nynorsk: Aruba
Occitan: Aruba f
Ojibwe: Awooba
Papiamentu: Aruba f
Polish: Aruba (pl)
Portuguese: Aruba (pt) f
Romanian: Aruba f
Russian: Ару́ба (ru) f (Arúba)
Scots: Aruba
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Аруба f

Roman: Aruba f
Spanish: Aruba (es) f
Swedish: Aruba (sv)
Thai: อารูบา (th) (aa-ruu-bâa)
Tigrinya: ኣሩባ (ʾaruba)
Turkish: Aruba (tr)
West Frisian: Arûba n

Anagrams

Barua, abura

Czech

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Aruba

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Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈaruba]
Rhymes: -uba
Hyphenation: Aru‧ba

Proper noun

Aruba f (relational adjective arubský, demonym Aruban, female demonym Arubanka)

Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)

Declension

More information singular, nominative ...

	singular
nominative	Aruba
genitive	Aruby
dative	Arubě
accusative	Arubu
vocative	Arubo
locative	Arubě
instrumental	Arubou

Declension of Aruba (sg-only hard feminine)

Dutch

Etymology

Uncertain. Proposed etymologies include a derivation from Spanish oro (“gold”) and the third-person singular preterite form of haber (“to have”) ("there was gold"), a derivation from Kalinago oruba (“well-placed”) or a compound of two Kalinago words, ora (“shell”) and oubao (“island”).