Havana

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• Received-Pronunciation: /həˈvæ.nə/
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• General-American: /həˈvæ.nə/
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• General-American: /-ˈvɑː-/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ænə
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AH0 V AE1 N AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Spanish La Habana, from Habaguanex, the native American chief (cacique) who controlled the area, the name derived from Taíno sabana (“savannah”). The letter h may be an anthroponymic inflection.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Amharic: አባና (ābana) — capital city of Cuba
• Amharic: ሀቫና (hāvana) — capital city of Cuba
• Antillean Creole: La Avann — capital city of Cuba
• Antillean Creole: Avann — capital city of Cuba
• Arabic: هَافَانَا (hāfānā) — capital city of Cuba
• Armenian: Հավանա — capital city of Cuba
• Asturian: L'Habana — capital city of Cuba
• Belarusian: Гава́на (Havána) — capital city of Cuba
• Bengali: হাভানা (habhana) — capital city of Cuba
• Bulgarian: Хава́на (Havána) — capital city of Cuba
• Burmese: ဟာဗားနား (haba:na:) — capital city of Cuba
• Catalan: L'Havana — capital city of Cuba
• Chamorro: havanaea — capital city of Cuba
• Chinese Mandarin: 哈瓦那 (Hāwǎnà) — capital city of Cuba
• Corsican: L'Avana — capital city of Cuba
• Czech: Havana — capital city of Cuba
• Danish: Havana — capital city of Cuba
• Esperanto: Havano — capital city of Cuba
• Finnish: Havanna — capital city of Cuba
• French: La Havane — capital city of Cuba
• Georgian: ჰავანა (havana) — capital city of Cuba
• German: Havanna — capital city of Cuba
• Greek: Αβάνα (Avána) — capital city of Cuba
• Haitian Creole: La Avàn — capital city of Cuba
• Hebrew: הוואנה — capital city of Cuba
• Hindi: हवाना (havānā) — capital city of Cuba
• Hungarian: Havanna — capital city of Cuba
• Italian: L'Avana — capital city of Cuba
• Italian: L'Havana — capital city of Cuba
• Japanese: ハバナ (Habana) — capital city of Cuba
• Khmer: ហាវ៉ាណា (haavaanaa) — capital city of Cuba
• Korean: 아바나 — capital city of Cuba
• Korean: 라 아바나 — capital city of Cuba
• Latin: Avana — capital city of Cuba
• Lithuanian: Havana — capital city of Cuba
• Lucumí: Ilú Pupu Ilé — capital city of Cuba
• Luxembourgish: Havanna — capital city of Cuba
• Macedonian: Хава́на (Havána) — capital city of Cuba
• Maltese: il-Ħavana — capital city of Cuba
• Marathi: हव्हाना (havhānā) — capital city of Cuba
• Persian: هاوانا (hâvânâ) — capital city of Cuba
• Polish: Hawana — capital city of Cuba
• Portuguese: Havana — capital city of Cuba
• Russian: Гава́на (Gavána) — capital city of Cuba
• Sardinian: S'Avana — capital city of Cuba
• Serbo-Croatian: Хава̀на — capital city of Cuba
• Serbo-Croatian: Havàna — capital city of Cuba
• Sicilian: L'Avana — capital city of Cuba
• Spanish: La Habana — capital city of Cuba
• Swedish: Havanna — capital city of Cuba
• Telugu: హవానా (havānā) — capital city of Cuba
• Thai: ฮาวานา (haa-waa-nâa) — capital city of Cuba
• Turkish: Havana — capital city of Cuba
• Ukrainian: Гава́на (Havána) — capital city of Cuba
• Urdu: ہوانا (havānā) — capital city of Cuba
• Uyghur: ھاۋانا (hawana) — capital city of Cuba
• Vietnamese: La Ha-ba-na — capital city of Cuba
• Vietnamese: Ha-va-na — capital city of Cuba
• Chinese Mandarin: 哈瓦那雪茄 (Hāwǎnà xuějiā) — cigar
• Finnish: havannalainen — cigar
• Finnish: havannasikari — cigar
• Greek: πούρα Αβάνας (poúra Avánas) — cigar
• Indonesian: havana — cigar
• Italian: avana — cigar
• Macedonian: ха́ванска пу́ра (hávanska púra) — cigar
• Marathi: हवाना (havānā) — cigar
• Portuguese: havana — cigar
• Spanish: habano — cigar