Type Settlement
Usage Spanish (Latin American)
Meaning & History
Lima is a corruption of the name Rimac.
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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. /ˈli.ma/(Spanish, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Tagalog) /ˈliː.mə/(English) /ˈliː.maː/(Arabic) /ˈli.mɑ/(Armenian, Finnish) /lì.mà/(Burmese) /li.mɑ/(Chinese) /ˈlî.ma/(Croatian, Serbian) /ˈlɪ.ma/(Czech) /li.ma/(French, Georgian) /ˈliː.ma/(German) /ˈliː.mɑː/(Hindi) /ˈli.mɒ/(Hungarian) /liː.ˈmaː/(Khmer) /liʔ˧.ˈmaː˧˥/(Lao) /liʔ˧˨.ˈmaː˩˨/(Lao) /liː.ˈmɒː/(Persian) /ˈli.mɐ/(European Portuguese) /ˈlĩ.mɐ/(Brazilian Portuguese) /ˈlʲi.mə/(Russian) /li˦˥.ˈmaː˧/(Thai) /ˈlʲi.mɐ/(Ukrainian) [key·simplify]
Meaning & History
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.