Puerto Rico

See also: Puerto-Rico

English

Puerto Rico in the Americas

Alternative forms

• Porto Rico

Etymology

From Spanish Puerto Rico (literally “Rich Port”). In US English, the name is commonly pronounced and was formerly spelled Porto Rico; many other Spanish Puerto placenames were formerly also anglicized to Porto.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɔɹtəˈɹikoʊ/, [ˌpɔɚɾəˈɹikoʊ]
• (especially in Puerto Rico) IPA^(key): /ˌpwɛɹtoʊˈɹikoʊ/, enPR: pwěrʹtō rēʹkō

• Audio (US):

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpwɜː(ɹ)təˈɹiːkəʊ/, /ˌpwɛə(ɹ)təˈɹiːkəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːkəʊ

Proper noun

Puerto Rico

1. A self-governing commonwealth and dependent territory of the United States in the Caribbean.

   Synonyms: (official name) Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (symbol) PR

2. The island comprising most of that territory.

   The indigenous Taíno name for the island of Puerto Rico was 'Borikén', which literally means "Land of the Valiant Lord".

Synonyms

• Borikén

Derived terms

• Puerto Rican

Translations

Caribbean Commonwealth

• Arabic: بُورْتُو رِيكُو f (burtū rīkū), بُورْتُورِيكُو f (būrtūrīkū)

  Hijazi Arabic: بورتو ريكو f (bōrtu rīku, pōrtu rīku)

• Armenian: Պուերտո Ռիկո (Puerto Ṙiko)
• Belarusian: Пуэрта-Ры́ка n (Puerta-Rýka), Пўэрта-Ры́ка n (Pŭerta-Rýka)
• Breton: Puerto Rico (br)
• Bulgarian: Пуерто Ри́ко n (Puerto Ríko)
• Catalan: Puerto Rico (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 波多黎各 (bo¹ do¹ lai⁴ gok³)

  Mandarin: 波多黎各 (zh) (Bōduōlígè)

• Corsican: Portu Ricu m, Portiricu m
• Czech: Portorico n, Portoriko (cs) n
• Danish: Puerto Rico (da) n
• Dutch: Puerto Rico (nl) n, Porto Rico n
• Esperanto: Portoriko, Puerto-Riko, Porto-Riko
• Faroese: Puerto Riko
• Finnish: Puerto Rico (fi)
• French: Porto Rico (fr) m, Puerto Rico (fr) m
• Galician: Porto Rico (gl) m
• Georgian: პუერტო-რიკო (ṗuerṭo-riḳo)
• German: Puerto Rico (de) n
• Greek: Πουέρτο Ρίκο (el) n (Pouérto Ríko), Πόρτο Ρίκο n (Pórto Ríko)
• Hawaiian: Pokoliko
• Hebrew: פורטו ריקו f (porto riko)
• Hindi: पोर्टो रीको m (porṭo rīko)
• Hungarian: Puerto Rico (hu)
• Icelandic: Púertó Ríkó
• Ido: Porto-Riko (io)
• Interlingua: Puerto Rico
• Inuktitut: ᐳᕐᑐ ᕆᑯ (porto riko)
• Irish: Pórtó Ríce
• Italian: Porto Rico (it) m
• Japanese: プエルトリコ (ja) (Puerutoriko)
• Khmer: ព័រតូរីកូ (km) (pɔətou riikou)
• Korean: 푸에르토리코 (ko) (Puereutoriko)
• Lao: ເປີໂຕຣິໂກ (pœ̄ tō ri kō)
• Latin: Portus Dives
• Latvian: Puertoriko f
• Lithuanian: Puerto Rikas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Портори́ко n (Portoríko)
• Maltese: Porto Riko
• Norman: Puerto Rico m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Puerto Rico

  Nynorsk: Puerto Rico

• Papiamentu: Puerto Rico m
• Polish: Portoryko (pl) n, Puerto Rico (pl) n
• Portuguese: Porto Rico (pt)
• Romanian: Porto Rico, Puerto Rico
• Russian: Пуэ́рто-Ри́ко m or n (Puérto-Ríko)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: Portoriko (sh) m, Porto Riko m

• Slovak: Portoriko
• Spanish: Puerto Rico (es) m
• Swedish: Puerto Rico (sv) n
• Thai: ปวยร์โตรีโก (bpuai-dtoo-rii-gôo)
• Turkish: Porto Riko (tr)
• Ukrainian: Пуерто-Ри́ко n (Puerto-Rýko)
• Vietnamese: Pu-éc-tô Ri-cô
• West Frisian: Porto Riko n
• Yiddish: פּוערטאָ ריקאָ (puerto riko)
• Yoruba: Pọto Riko

See also

• boricua
• San Juan
• Appendix:Countries and territories of the world

Further reading

• Puerto Rico on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Spanish Puerto Rico.

Proper noun

Puerto Rico

1. Puerto Rico (a commonwealth, island and dependent territory of the United States in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• puertoricaner, puertorikaner
• puertoricansk, puertorikansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Spanish Puerto Rico.

Proper noun

Puerto Rico

1. Puerto Rico (a commonwealth, island and dependent territory of the United States in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• puertoricanar, puertorikanar
• puertoricansk, puertorikansk

Romanian

Proper noun

Puerto Rico n

1. Puerto Rico (a commonwealth, island and dependent territory of the United States in the Caribbean)

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Puerto-Rico (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpweɾto ˈriko/ [ˌpweɾ.t̪o ˈri.ko]
  • Syllabification: Puer‧to Ri‧co
• IPA^(key): (Puerto Rico) /ˌpwe̞lto̞ˈχiko̞/
  • Rhymes: -iko̞

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Puerto Rico

1. Puerto Rico (a commonwealth, island and dependent territory of the United States in the Caribbean)

   Synonym: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico