Paraguay

Etymology
Disputed; from  or   or.

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1670, Richard Blome, in “America, the Fourth Part” of A Geographical Description of the Four Parts of the World, 30:
 * Sanson in his Geographical Table hath divided this AMERICA MERIDIONALIS into PERUVIANA, and BRASLIANA [sic], subdividing Peruviana into Terra Firma, and Peru; and Brasiliana, into Brazile, and Paraguay; the first division is taken by a line which from the mouth of the Amazona, goes to seek the utmost part of Chili towards the South, ...
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Translations

 * Abkhaz: Парагәаи
 * Adyghe: Парагуай
 * Afrikaans: Paraguay
 * Albanian: Paraguái, Paraguaí
 * Amharic: ፓራጓይ
 * Arabic: بَارَاجُوَاي, بَارَاغُوَاي, بَرَغواي, بَرَجواي
 * Hijazi Arabic: باراقواي
 * Armenian: Պարագվայ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: Парагва́й
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: Paraguay
 * Bulgarian: Парагва́й
 * Burmese: ပာရာဂ္ဝေး
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 巴拉圭
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ޕެރަގުއޭ
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: Paraguái
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: Paraguay
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalenjin: Paragwe
 * Kamba: Paragwe
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ប៉ារ៉ាហ្គាយ
 * Kikuyu: Paragwe
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: Paraguay
 * Kyrgyz: Парагвай
 * Lao: ປາລາກວາຍ, ປາຣາກວາຍ, ປຣາກວາຍ
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya: Paragwe
 * Luo: Paragwe
 * Macedonian: Парагвај
 * Malay: Paraguay
 * Maltese: Paragwaj
 * Meru: paragwe
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Парагвай
 * Navajo: Warani Dineʼé bikéyah
 * Norman: Paraguay
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Paraguay
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Dari: پَارَاگْوَای
 * Iranian Persian: پاراگوئِه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Па̏рагва̄ј
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: පැරගුවේ
 * Slovak: Paraguaj
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: Paragwei
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: Парагвай
 * Tatar: Парагвай
 * Telugu: పరగ్వే
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: པ་ར་གུ་ཡེ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Paragwaý
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: پَیراگْوئے
 * Uyghur: پاراگۋاي
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: Pa-ra-goay
 * Yiddish: פּאַראַגווײַ
 * Yoruba: Paraguye

Etymology
From.

Usage notes
Paraguay is the name of Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. The name of the country is .

Etymology
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Etymology
, formed either from +  or from  +.

Usage notes

 * The definite article is optional when referring to Paraguay in Spanish (i.e. el Paraguay).