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Lima is a corruption of the name
Rimac .
Type Settlement
Usage Spanish , Aymara , English , Afrikaans , Arabic , Armenian , Azerbaijani , Belarusian , Bosnian , Bulgarian , Burmese , Chinese , Croatian , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Estonian , Finnish , French , Georgian , German , Greek , Hebrew , Hindi , Hungarian , Indonesian , Italian , Kazakh , Khmer , Kyrgyz , Lao , Latvian , Lithuanian , Macedonian , Malay , Maltese , Mongolian , Norwegian , Persian , Polish , Portuguese , Romanian , Russian , Serbian , Slovak , Slovene , Swedish , Tagalog , Tajik , Thai , Turkish , Turkmen , Ukrainian , Urdu , Uzbek
Scripts ليما(Arabic ) Լիմա(Armenian ) Ліма(Belarusian , Ukrainian ) Лима(Bulgarian , Kazakh , Kyrgyz , Macedonian , Mongolian Cyrillic , Russian , Serbian , Tajik , Uzbek ) လီမာ(Burmese ) 利马(Chinese ) 利馬(Traditional Chinese ) ლიმა(Georgian ) Λίμα(Greek ) לימה(Hebrew ) लीमा(Hindi ) លីម៉ា(Khmer ) ລິມາ(Lao ) لیما(Persian , Urdu ) ลิมา(Thai )
Pronounced Pron. LEE-ma (Spanish , Arabic , Croatian , German , Greek , Indonesian , Italian , Macedonian , Polish , Romanian , Serbian , Slovak , Tagalog ) LEE-mə (English ) LEE-mah (Armenian , Finnish , Hindi ) LEE-MA (Burmese , French , Georgian ) LEE-MAH (Chinese ) LI-ma (Czech ) LEE-maw (Hungarian ) lee-MA (Khmer , Lao , Thai ) lee-MAW (Persian ) LEE-mu (European Portuguese ) LEEN -mu (Brazilian Portuguese ) LY EE-mə (Russian ) LY EE-mu (Ukrainian ) [key · IPA ]
Most likely a corruption of
Rímac , the name of a river, itself derived from Quechua
rimaq meaning "speaker, talker" (ultimately from
rimay meaning "to speak"). This is the name of the capital city of Peru.