Aruba

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹuː.bə/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːbə

Proper noun

Aruba

2. 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

3. 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

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

Further reading

• Aruba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Barua, abura

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Aruba

Wikipedia ^cs

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)

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

Declension

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

Declension of Aruba (sg-only hard feminine)

Further reading

• “Aruba”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːˈru.baː/, /aːˈry.baː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Aru‧ba

Proper noun

Aruba n

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

Derived terms

• Arubaans

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Aruba

Wikipedia ^la

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈruː.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈruː.ba]

Proper noun

Arūba f sg (genitive Arūbae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Arūba
genitive	Arūbae
dative	Arūbae
accusative	Arūbam
ablative	Arūbā
vocative	Arūba
locative	Arūbae

Norman

Proper noun

Aruba

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Aruba

Wikipedia ^no

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑɾʉːbɑ/

Proper noun

Aruba

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Aruba

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Proper noun

Aruba

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

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Arawak Taíno ora (“shell”) + oubao (“island”).

Proper noun

Aruba

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

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾu.bɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾu.bɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾu.ba/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɾu.bɐ/ [ɐˈɾu.βɐ]

Proper noun

Aruba f

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

Derived terms

• arubano

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Aruba f (Cyrillic spelling Аруба)

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

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Aruba

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾuba/ [aˈɾu.β̞a]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: A‧ru‧ba

Proper noun

Aruba f

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

Derived terms

• arubano

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Aruba n (genitive Arubas)

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

Related terms

• arubansk (“Aruban”, adjective)
• aruban c (“Aruban male”)
• arubanska c (“Aruban female”)