Guiana

From the local language (probably Cariban or Arawakan), meaning “land of many waters”. Also spelled as Guyana. The French form gave the town name Cayenne.

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɪˈænə/, /ɡaɪˈɑːnə/, /ɡiˈɑːnə/, /ɡiˈænə/

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Guiana

1. A geological region in the north of South America.

• British Guiana
• Dutch Guiana
• French Guiana
• the Guianas
• Guinea
• Guyana

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

• “Guiana”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Inagua, iguana

Guiana f

1. Guyana (a country in South America)

• agunai, guaina, iguana

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡʷiˈaː.na/, [ɡʷiˈäːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡwiˈa.na/, [ɡwiˈäːnä]

Guiāna f sg (genitive Guiānae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Guyana (a country in South America)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Guiānus
• Guiānicus

• Güiana

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin Aquītānia. Doublet of Aquitània.

Guiana

1. (historical) Guyenne

• Hyphenation: Gui‧a‧na

Guiana f

1. Guyana (a country in South America)

• (countries of South America) país da América do Sul; Argentina, Bolívia, Brasil, Chile, Colômbia, Equador, Guiana, Paraguai, Peru, Suriname, Uruguai, Venezuela