Macau

Etymology
, from a southern seaward variety of, possibly , possibly either or , short for , from  + , both referring to the   or Templo de A-Má in Portuguese, built in 1488 before the city of Macau came into being. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1) A special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, west of Hong Kong, previously under Portuguese control.

Synonyms

 * (especially in the Chinese media)

Translations

 * Arabic: مَاكَاوْ, أَوْمِين
 * Armenian: Մակաո,
 * Assamese: মাকাও
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: Аамы́нь, Мака́о
 * Bengali: মাকাও
 * Bulgarian:, А́омън, А́омен
 * Burmese: မကာအို
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 澳門, 馬交
 * Eastern Min: 澳門
 * Hakka: 澳門
 * Hokkien: 澳門
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 澳門
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Macao
 * Dhivehi: މަކާއޫ
 * Esperanto: Makao, Aomeno
 * Estonian:, Aomen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მაკაო
 * German:
 * Greek: Μακάου
 * Hebrew: מקאו
 * Hindi: मकाओ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Makaó
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , アオメン
 * Kannada: ಮಕಾವು
 * Kazakh: Аумын,
 * Khmer: ម៉ាកាវ
 * Korean: ^마카오,, ^아오먼
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ມາເກົາ
 * Latvian: Makao, Aomiņa
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macau: Macau
 * Macedonian: Мака́о
 * Malay: Makau
 * Malayalam: മകൗ
 * Maori: Makau
 * Marathi: मकाउ
 * Mongolian: Аомэн, Макао
 * Norman: Macao
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Macao
 * Ossetian: Макао
 * Persian: ماکائو
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: Macao
 * Russian:, (older transliteration but common), Аомэ́нь (rare spelling, new transliteration)
 * Scottish Gaelic: Macau, Macao, Macàthu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Макао, Макау
 * Roman: Makao, Makau
 * Sinhalese:
 * Spanish: Macau
 * Tagalog: Makaw
 * Tajik: Аомин, Аомэн, Макао
 * Tamil: மக்காவு
 * Telugu: మకావు
 * Thai:, อ้าวเหมิน
 * Turkmen: Makao
 * Ukrainian: Аоми́нь, Мака́о
 * Urdu: مکاؤ
 * Uzbek: Makao
 * Vietnamese: Ma Cao, Áo Môn
 * Zhuang: Aumwnz

Etymology
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Etymology
From a southern seaward variety of, possibly , possibly either or , short for , from  + , both referring to the   or Templo de A-Má in Portuguese, built in 1488 before the city of Macau came into being. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.