Curitiba

English

Map of Brazil with the location of Curitiba in red

Proper noun

Curitiba

1. A municipality, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil.

Translations

State capital of Paraná

• Abkhaz: Куритиба (Kʼuritʼiba)
• Arabic: كوريتيبا
• Armenian: Կուրիտիբա (Kuritiba)
• Avar: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
• Aymara: Kuritiwa
• Bambara: Kuritiba
• Bashkir: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
• Belarusian: Курыціба (Kuryciba)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: কুরিটিবা
• Bulgarian: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
• Chechen: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫里奇巴 (Kùlǐtíbā)

• Chuvash: Куритиба (Kurit̬iba)
• Classical Syriac: ܩܘܪܝܛܝܒܐ
• Crimean Tatar: Kuritiba
• Esperanto: Kuritibo
• Finnish: Curitiba
• French: Curitiba
• Georgian: კურიტიბა (ḳuriṭiba)
• German: Curitiba (de) n
• Greek: Κουριτίμπα (Kouritímpa)
• Greenlandic: Kuritiba
• Guaraní: Kury'ityba
• Hawaiian: Kuritiba
• Hebrew: קוריטיבה
• Japanese: クリチバ (Kurichiba)
• Kabyle: Kuriṭiba
• Kalmyk: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
• Korean: 쿠리치바 (Kurichiba)
• Latvian: Kuritiba
• Lithuanian: Kuritiba
• Macedonian: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
• Navajo: Koritiba
• Pashto: کوريتيبا
• Polish: Kurytyba (pl)
• Portuguese: Curitiba (pt)
• Russian: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
• Samogitian: Kuritiba
• Serbo-Croatian: Куритиба
• Spanish: Curitiba (es)
• Sundanese: Kuritiba
• Tajik: Куритиба (Kuritiba)
• Thai: กูรีตีบา
• Turkish: Curitiba
• Turkmen: Kurytyba
• Ukrainian: Куритиба (Kurytyba)
• Urdu: کوریتیبا (koretebā)
• Venda: Kuritiba
• Yiddish: קוריטיבאַ (kuritiba)
• Yoruba: Kurytyba
• Zazaki: Kuritiba

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Coritiba (archaic)
• Curityba (obsolete)
• Corityba (obsolete)

Etymology

Uncertain. Suggested derivations include:

• Old Tupi curé / coré (“pig”) + tyba (“abundance”)
• Old Tupi curi (“Paraná pine”) + tyba (“abundance”)
• Guaraní Kuri'yty, corruption of Kuri'yndy (“grove of Paraná pines”)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ku.ɾiˈt͡ʃi.bɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ku.ɾiˈt͡ʃi.bɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ku.ɾiˈt͡ʃi.ba/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.ɾiˈti.bɐ/ [ku.ɾiˈti.βɐ]

• Rhymes: -ibɐ
• Hyphenation: Cu‧ri‧ti‧ba

Proper noun

Curitiba f

1. Curitiba (a municipality, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil)

Derived terms

• curitibano / curitibana

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuɾiˈtiba/ [ku.ɾiˈt̪i.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: Cu‧ri‧ti‧ba

Proper noun

Curitiba f

1. Curitiba (a municipality, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil)