name
Meaning 1
An island of the Balearic Islands, Spain, east of Mallorca.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Minorca
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Pronunciation
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/mɪˈnɔː(ɹ)kə/
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noun
Meaning 2
A domestic chicken of a certain breed originating on the island of Menorca.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- ”Yet another breed which has fallen from grace, more through unwise breeding than any fault of its own is the Minorca. See ref. p.43.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Late Latin Minorca, Minorica, from Latin Balearis Minor. Compare Majorca.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَنُورَقَة (manūraqa) — An island of Spain
- Arabic: مينوركا (minurka) — An island of Spain
- Armenian: Մենորկա (Menorka) — An island of Spain
- Basque: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Belarusian: Менорка (Mjenórka) — An island of Spain
- Belarusian: Мінорка (Minórka) — An island of Spain
- Bulgarian: Менорка (Menorka) — An island of Spain
- Catalan: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Chinese Mandarin: 梅諾卡島 /梅诺卡岛 (Méinuòkǎ dǎo) — An island of Spain
- Czech: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Danish: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Dutch: Minorca — An island of Spain
- Esperanto: Minorko — An island of Spain
- Estonian: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Finnish: Menorca — An island of Spain
- French: Minorque — An island of Spain
- Galician: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Georgian: მენორკა (menorḳa) — An island of Spain
- German: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Greek: Μινόρκα (Minórka) — An island of Spain
- Hebrew: מנורקה — An island of Spain
- Hungarian: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Irish: Mionarca — An island of Spain
- Italian: Minorca — An island of Spain
- Japanese: メノルカ島 (menorukatō) — An island of Spain
- Japanese: ミノルカ島 (minorukatō) — An island of Spain
- Korean: 메노르카 섬 (menoreuka seom) — An island of Spain
- Latin: Balearis Minor — An island of Spain
- Latvian: Menorka — An island of Spain
- Lithuanian: Menorka — An island of Spain
- Macedonian: Менорка (Menorka) — An island of Spain
- Maltese: Minorka — An island of Spain
- Norwegian Bokmål: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Occitan: Menòrca — An island of Spain
- Old Norse: Manork — An island of Spain
- Persian: مینورکا (minurkâ) — An island of Spain
- Polish: Minorka — An island of Spain
- Portuguese: Minorca — An island of Spain
- Portuguese: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Romanian: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Russian: Мено́рка (Menórka) — An island of Spain
- Russian: Мино́рка (Minórka) — An island of Spain
- Serbo-Croatian: Менорка — An island of Spain
- Serbo-Croatian: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Sicilian: Minorca — An island of Spain
- Slovak: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Slovene: Menorka — An island of Spain
- Spanish: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Swedish: Menorca — An island of Spain
- Turkish: Minorka — An island of Spain
- Ukrainian: Мено́рка (Menórka) — An island of Spain