indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Settlement
Usage Spanish, English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Tagalog, Turkish
Pronounced Pron. bo-go-TA(Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese) bo-gə-TAH(English) baw-gə-TAH(English) BO-go-ta(Hungarian) baw-goo-TA(European Spanish) [key·IPA]
Meaning & History
Meaning uncertain, likely derived from an unknown Chibcha word. The original Chibcha name has been attributed to Bacatá (also rendered as Muyquytá) meaning "fields' end" or "outside the farmlands", the name of a historical settlement. This is the name of the capital city of Colombia.