Curitiba

English

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Curitiba

Wikipedia

Map of Brazil with the location of Curitiba in red

Proper noun

Curitiba

1. A municipality, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil.

Translations

State capital of Paraná

Abkhaz: Куритиба (Kʼuritʼiba) Arabic: كوريتيبا Armenian: Կուրիտիբա (Kuritiba) Avar: Куритиба (Kuritiba) Aymara: Kuritiwa Bambara: Kuritiba Bashkir: Куритиба (Kuritiba) Belarusian: Курыціба (Kuryciba) Bishnupriya Manipuri: কুরিটিবা Bulgarian: Куритиба (Kuritiba) Chechen: Куритиба (Kuritiba) Chinese: Mandarin: 庫里奇巴 (Kùlǐtíbā) Chuvash: Куритиба (Kurit̬iba) Classical Syriac: ܩܘܪܝܛܝܒܐ Crimean Tatar: Kuritiba Esperanto: Kuritibo Finnish: Curitiba French: Curitiba Georgian: კურიტიბა (ḳuriṭiba) German: Curitiba (de) n Greek: Κουριτίμπα (Kouritímpa) Greenlandic: Kuritiba Guaraní: Kury'ityba Hawaiian: Kuritiba Hebrew: קוריטיבה Japanese: クリチバ (Kurichiba) Kabyle: Kuriṭiba Kalmyk: Куритиба (Kuritiba) Korean: 쿠리치바 (Kurichiba) Latvian: Kuritiba Lithuanian: Kuritiba Macedonian: Куритиба (Kuritiba) Marathi: कुरितिबा (kuritibā) Navajo: Koritiba Pashto: کوريتيبا Polish: Kurytyba (pl) Portuguese: Curitiba (pt) Russian: Куритиба (Kuritiba) Samogitian: Kuritiba Serbo-Croatian: Куритиба Spanish: Curitiba (es) Sundanese: Kuritiba Tajik: Куритиба (Kuritiba) Thai: กูรีตีบา Turkish: Curitiba Turkmen: Kurytyba Ukrainian: Куритиба (Kurytyba) Urdu: کوریتیبا (koretebā) Venda: Kuritiba Yiddish: קוריטיבאַ (kuritiba) Yoruba: Kurytyba Zazaki: Kuritiba

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Coritiba (archaic)
• Curityba, Corityba (obsolete)

Etymology

Uncertain. Suggested derivations include:

• Old Tupi kurityba (“Paraná pine gathering”)^[1]
• Guaraní kuri'yty, corruption of kuri'yndy (“grove of Paraná pines”)^[2]

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ku.ɾiˈt͡ʃi.bɐ/

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

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

• Rhymes: -ibɐ
• Hyphenation: Cu‧ri‧ti‧ba

Proper noun

Curitiba f

1. Curitiba (a municipality, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil)

Derived terms

• coritibano
• curitibano

 

References

1. Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Curitiba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 559, column 1
2. João Carlos Vicente Ferreira (2006) “Curitiba”, in Municípios paranaenses: origens e significados de seus nomes [Paraná's municipalities: the origin and meaning of their names] (Paraná da Gente; 5)‎ (in Portuguese), Curitiba: Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, page 99

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Curitiba

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuɾiˈtiba/ [ku.ɾiˈt̪i.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: Cu‧ri‧ti‧ba

Proper noun

Curitiba f

1. Curitiba (a municipality, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil)