Etymology

Cagayan

C3A1G2A1Y4A1N1

Today it means: A province of Cagayan Valley, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tuguegarao. Full definition →

Spanish Cagayán
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Spanish · borrowed fromCagayán
  2. English todayCagayan

From Spanish Cagayán, from various obsolete words for "river" in Philippine languages.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.