Meanings
proper noun
- The capital city of Honduras.
But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
2025 February 1, Annie Correal, “U.S. Military Planes Deliver Deportees to Honduras”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025 - metonymicallyThe Honduran government.
Origin
- SpanishTegucigalpa
- EnglishTegucigalpa
Borrowed from Spanish Tegucigalpa, from Classical Nahuatl.
More words from Spanish
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Arabic تِيغُوسِيغَالْبَا
- تِيغُوسِيغَالْبَا (tīḡūsīḡālbā)capital of Honduras
Basque Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Bulgarian Тегусига́лпа
- Тегусига́лпа (Tegusigálpa)capital of Honduras
Catalan Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Chinese Mandarin 特古西加爾巴 /特古西加尔巴
- 特古西加爾巴 /特古西加尔巴 (Tègǔxījiā'ěrbā)capital of Honduras
Czech Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Danish Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Dutch Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Esperanto Tegucigalpo
- Tegucigalpocapital of Honduras
Estonian Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
French Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
German Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Greek Τεγουσιγάλπα
- Τεγουσιγάλπα (Tegousigálpa)capital of Honduras
Hindi तेगुसिगाल्पा
- तेगुसिगाल्पा (tegusigālpā)capital of Honduras
Hungarian Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Indonesian Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Irish Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Italian Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Japanese テグシガルパ
- テグシガルパ (Tegushigarupa)capital of Honduras
Korean 테구시갈파
- 테구시갈파 (Tegusigalpa)capital of Honduras
Malay Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Polish Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Portuguese Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Romanian Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Russian Тегусига́льпа
- Тегусига́льпа (Tegusigálʹpa)capital of Honduras
Scottish Gaelic Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Slovak Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Spanish Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Swahili Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Swedish Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Tamil டெகுசிகல்பா
- டெகுசிகல்பா (ṭekucikalpā)capital of Honduras
Ukrainian Тегусіга́льпа
- Тегусіга́льпа (Tehusihálʹpa)capital of Honduras
Vietnamese Tơ-gu-xi-ga-pa
- Tơ-gu-xi-ga-pacapital of Honduras
Welsh Tegucigalpa
- Tegucigalpacapital of Honduras
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Tegucigalpa
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APA
Tegucigalpa. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tegucigalpa
MLA
“Tegucigalpa.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tegucigalpa. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tegucigalpa,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tegucigalpa.
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