Azores

See also: azores and azorés

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Azores, from Portuguese Açores (“Azores”), from açores, plural of açor (“goshawk”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /əˈzɔːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪzɔːɹz/
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z

Proper noun

the Azores pl

An archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean
An autonomous region of Portugal in the North Atlantic (officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores)

Hypernyms

Macaronesia

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Azorean

Translations

an archipelago and an autonomous region

Arabic: اَلْأَزُور (al-ʔazūr)
Hijazi Arabic: الأزور f pl (al-ʔazōr)
Armenian: Ազորյան կղզիներ (hy) pl (Azoryan kġziner), Ազորներ pl (Azorner)
Catalan: Açores (ca) m pl
Cherokee: ᎠᏐᎴᏏ (asolesi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 亞速爾群島 / 亚速尔群岛 (zh) (Yàsù'ěr qúndǎo)
Czech: Azory (cs) f pl
Danish: Azorerne (da) pl, Acorerne pl
Dutch: Azoren (nl)
Esperanto: Acoroj pl
Farefare: Azɔa pl
Finnish: Azorit (fi)
French: les Açores (fr) f pl
Galician: Azores (gl) m pl
Georgian: აზორის კუნძულები (azoris ḳunʒulebi)
German: die Azoren (de) f pl
Greek: Αζόρες (el) f pl (Azóres)
Hindi: अज़ोरेस (azores)
Hungarian: Azori-szigetek (hu)
Icelandic: Asoreyjar f pl
Interlingua: le Azores pl
Irish: na hAsóir m
Italian: le Azzorre f pl
Japanese: アゾレス諸島 (Azoresu-shotō)
Korean: 아조레스 제도 (Ajoreseu jedo)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Asorene, (Riksmål) Azorene

Nynorsk: Asorane
Polish: Azory (pl) pl
Portuguese: Açores (pt) m pl
Russian: Азо́рские острова́ (ru) m pl (Azórskije ostrová), Азо́ры (ru) pl (Azóry)
Spanish: las Azores (es) f pl
Swedish: Azorerna (sv) pl
Volapük: Lazoruäns (vo)

Further reading

Azores on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

Erazos

Interlingua

Proper noun

le Azores pl

the Azores

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aˈθoɾes/ [aˈθo.ɾes] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
IPA^(key): /aˈsoɾes/ [aˈso.ɾes] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -oɾes
Syllabification: A‧zo‧res

Proper noun

Azores f pl (plural only)

the Azores
Fuimos a las Azores.
We went to the Azores.