Paraná

See also: parana and paranã

English

Alternative forms

• Parana

Etymology

From Spanish Paraná or Portuguese Paraná, both from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpæ.ɹəˈnɑː/, /ˌpæ.ɹəˈnɑ/, /pəˈɹɑː.nə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

Proper noun

Paraná

1. A river in central and southern South America.
2. A state of the South Region, Brazil. Capital: Curitiba.
3. The provincial capital of Entre Ríos, Argentina.
4. A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Translations

river in South America

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴拉那河 (zh) (Bālānàhé)

• Marathi: पाराना (pārānā)
• Portuguese: Paraná (pt) m

state in southern Brazil

• Arabic: بَارَانَا (bārānā)
• Armenian: Պարանա (Parana)
• Azerbaijani: Parana
• Basque: Paraná
• Bulgarian: Парана́ (Paraná)
• Catalan: Paranà
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴拉那 (bālānà)

• Czech: Paraná
• Dutch: Paraná (nl)
• Estonian: Paraná
• French: Paraná (fr)
• Galician: Paraná (gl)
• Georgian: პარანა (ṗarana)
• German: Paraná
• Greek: Παρανά (Paraná)
• Hebrew: פרנה (parana)
• Hindi: पाराना (pārānā)
• Hungarian: Paraná (hu)
• Italian: Paraná
• Japanese: パラナ (Parana)
• Korean: 파라나 (parana)
• Latvian: Parana
• Lithuanian: Parana
• Marathi: पाराना (pārānā)
• Persian: پارانا (pârânâ)
• Polish: Paraná
• Portuguese: Paraná (pt) m
• Romanian: Paraná
• Russian: Парана́ (Paraná)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Парана

  Roman: Parana, Paraná

• Slovak: Paraná
• Slovene: Paraná
• Spanish: Paraná
• Thai: ปารานา (bpaa-raa-naa)
• Turkish: Paraná
• Ukrainian: Парана́ (Paraná)
• Urdu: پارانا (pārānā)
• Vietnamese: Paraná

city in Argentina

• Marathi: पाराना (pārānā)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Aparan

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Paraná or Portuguese Paraná, both from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁa.na/

Proper noun

Paraná m

1. Paraná (a river in central and southern South America)
2. Paraná (a state of the South Region, Brazil; capital: Curitiba)
3. Paraná (the provincial capital of Entre Ríos, Argentina)
4. Paraná (a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Paraná or Portuguese Paraná, both from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁaˈna/

Proper noun

Paraná m (proper noun, strong, genitive Paranás)

1. Paraná (a river in central and southern South America)

Proper noun

Paraná n (proper noun, strong, genitive Paranás)

1. Paraná (a state of the South Region, Brazil; capital: Curitiba)
2. Paraná (the provincial capital of Entre Ríos, Argentina)
3. Paraná (a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Paraná or Portuguese Paraná, both from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.raˈna/^*

Proper noun

Paraná m

1. Paraná (a river in central and southern South America)
2. Paraná (a state of the South Region, Brazil; capital: Curitiba)
3. Paraná (the provincial capital of Entre Ríos, Argentina)
4. Paraná (a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾaˈna/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.ɾɐˈna/

• Audio (Brazil):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: Pa‧ra‧ná
• Homophone: paraná

Etymology 1

Paraná, Brazil

From Língua Geral Paulista paraná (“river”), from Old Tupi paranã (“sea”). Doublet of paraná.

The toponyms were named after the river.

Proper noun

Paraná m

1. Paraná (a river in central and southern South America)
2. Paraná (a state of the South Region, Brazil; capital: Curitiba)

   Synonym: (abbreviation) PR

3. Paraná (a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Related terms

• paranaense (demonym of the Brazilian state)
• paranismo
• paranista
• pinheiro-do-paraná

 

Descendants

• → Hunsrik: Paranaa

See also

• (states of Brazil) estado do Brazil; 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 ^{(Category: pt:States of Brazil)}

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish Paraná.

Proper noun

Paraná m

1. Paraná (the provincial capital of Entre Ríos, Argentina)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɾaˈna/ [pa.ɾaˈna]

• Audio (Peru):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: Pa‧ra‧ná

Proper noun

Paraná m

1. Paraná (a river in central and southern South America)
2. Paraná (a state of the South Region, Brazil; capital: Curitiba)
3. Paraná (the provincial capital of Entre Ríos, Argentina)
4. Paraná (a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Derived terms

• Alto Paraná