Type Country & River
Usage Spanish, English, French, Italian, Romanian, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Czech, Turkish
Pronounced Pron. oo-roo-GWIE(Spanish, Italian) YUWR-ə-gwie(English) UWR-ə-gway(English) UY-RUY-GWEH(French) OO-roo-gvie(Finnish, Hungarian) [key·IPA]
Meaning & History
The name of a country in South America, derived from a river of the same name. It is possibly from Guaraní uruguá, referring to a type of water snail. Alternatively it could come from uru "quail", gua "from" and y "water".
Related Names
Other Languages & CulturesUruguai(Basque) Urugvaj(Bosnian) Urugvay(Bulgarian) Uruguai(Catalan) Urugvaj(Croatian) Uruguai(Galician) Urugvai(Georgian) Uruguái(Guarani) Uruguai(Japanese) Urugvay(Kazakh) Urugwai(Korean) Urugvaja(Latvian) Urugvajus(Lithuanian) Urugvaj(Macedonian) Urugwaj(Polish) Uruguai(Portuguese) Urugvay(Russian) Urugvaj(Serbian) Uruguaj(Slovak) Urugvaj(Slovene) Uruhvay(Ukrainian)
