plaza

See also: Plaza, plaża, plażą, plaža, and płaza

English

The Plaza de España.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish plaza (“town-square or central place of gathering”), from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), clipping of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and place.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɑːzə/, /ˈplæzə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːzə, -æzə
• Hyphenation: pla‧za

Noun

plaza (plural plazas)

1. A town's public square.
2. An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches.
3. (Canada, US) A strip mall.
4. A shopping mall.

Synonyms

• square

Hyponyms

• circus

Coordinate terms

• concourse

Derived terms

• service plaza
• toll plaza

Descendants

• → Thai: พลาซ่า (plaa-sâa)

Translations

a towns' public square

• Albanian: shesh (sq) m
• Arabic: مَيْدَان (ar) m (maydān)

  Hijazi Arabic: ساحة f (sāḥa), ميدان m (mēdān)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: שוקא m (šūqā’)

  Syriac: ܫܘܩܐ m (šūqā’)

• Armenian: հրապարակ (hy) (hraparak)

  Old Armenian: շուկայ (šukay)

• Azerbaijani: meydan (az)
• Bashkir: майҙан (mayźan)
• Belarusian: пло́шча f (plóšča), майда́н m (majdán), пляц m (pljac)
• Bulgarian: площа́д (bg) m (ploštád), пло́щад (bg) f (plóštad) (archaic stress and gender)
• Burmese: ရင်ပြင် (my) (rangprang)
• Catalan: plaça (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣場 / 广场 (gwong² coeng⁴)

  Eastern Min: 廣場 / 广场 (guōng-diòng)

  Hakka: 廣場 / 广场 (kóng-chhòng)

  Hokkien: 廣場 / 广场 (kóng-tiûⁿ / kóng-tiôⁿ)

  Mandarin: 廣場 / 广场 (zh) (guǎngchǎng)

  Wu: 廣場 / 广场 (⁵kuaon-zan)

• Czech: náměstí (cs) n
• Danish: torv (da) n
• Dutch: plein (nl) n
• Esperanto: placo
• Estonian: väljak, plats (et)
• Finnish: aukio (fi), tori (fi)
• French: place (fr) f
• Galician: praza (gl) f
• Georgian: მოედანი (moedani)
• German: Platz (de) m
• Hebrew: כיכר \ כִּכָּר (he) f (kikár), רְחָבָה (he) f (r'ẖavá)
• Hindi: चौक (hi) m (cauk), वर्ग (hi) m (varg)
• Hungarian: tér (hu)
• Icelandic: torg (is) n
• Ido: placo (io)
• Indonesian: lapangan (id)
• Italian: piazza (it) f
• Japanese: 広場 (ja) (ひろば, hiroba)
• Kazakh: алаң (alañ)
• Khmer: ផ្លាហ្សា (phlaazaa), ទីលាន (tii liən), ប្រាង្គណ៍ (km) (praang)
• Korean: 광장(廣場) (ko) (gwangjang)
• Kyrgyz: аянт (ky) (ayant), майдан (maydan)
• Lao: ລານ (lān)
• Latin: platea
• Latvian: laukums m
• Lithuanian: aikštė (lt) f
• Macedonian: плоштад m (ploštad), пјаца f (pjaca)
• Malay: dataran (ms)
• Maori: marae
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: талбай (mn) (talbaj)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: torg (no) n, plass (no) m

  Nynorsk: torg n, plass m

• Occitan: plaça (oc)
• Ottoman Turkish: میدان (meydan)
• Pashto: ميدان m (maydān)
• Persian:

  Dari: مَیْدَان (maydān)

  Iranian Persian: مِیْدان (meydân)

• Polish: plac (pl) m
• Portuguese: praça (pt) f
• Romanian: piață (ro) f
• Russian: пло́щадь (ru) f (plóščadʹ), сквер (ru) m (skver)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тр̏г m

  Roman: tȑg (sh) m

• Slovak: námestie (sk) n
• Slovene: trg (sl) m
• Spanish: plaza (es) f, azogue (es) m, zócalo (es) m
• Swedish: torg (sv) n
• Tajik: майдон (tg) (maydon)
• Tatar: мәйдан (tt) (mäydan)
• Tetum: prasa
• Thai: ลาน (th) (laan), พลาซ่า (plaa-sâa), สแควร์ (sà-kwɛɛ), จัตุรัส (th) (jàt-dtù-ràt)
• Turkish: meydan (tr)
• Turkmen: meýdan (tk)
• Ukrainian: пло́ща (uk) f (plóšča), майда́н (uk) m (majdán)
• Urdu: مَیدان (maidān), چَوک m (cauk)
• Uyghur: مەيدان (meydan)
• Uzbek: maydon (uz)
• Vietnamese: quảng trường (vi) (廣場)
• Zhuang: guengjciengz

Anagrams

• La Paz

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaθa/ [ˈpla.θa]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aθa
• Hyphenation: pla‧za

Noun

plaza f (plural places)

1. (town) square

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish plaza, from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, literally “broad way”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /plas̻a/ [pla.s̻a]

• IPA^(key): (most dialects) /plas̻a/ [pla.s̻a]
• IPA^(key): (Biscayan) /plas̺a/ [pla.s̺a]

 

• Rhymes: -as̻a, -a

• Rhymes: -as̻a, -a
• Rhymes: -as̺a, -a

• Hyphenation: pla‧za

Noun

plaza inan

1. plaza, town square, public place
2. market place

Declension

Declension of plaza (inanimate, ending in -a)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	plaza	plaza	plazak
ergative	plazak	plazak	plazek
dative	plazari	plazari	plazei
genitive	plazaren	plazaren	plazen
comitative	plazarekin	plazarekin	plazekin
causative	plazarengatik	plazarengatik	plazengatik
benefactive	plazarentzat	plazarentzat	plazentzat
instrumental	plazaz	plazaz	plazez
inessive	plazatan	plazan	plazetan
locative	plazatako	plazako	plazetako
allative	plazatara	plazara	plazetara
terminative	plazataraino	plazaraino	plazetaraino
directive	plazatarantz	plazarantz	plazetarantz
destinative	plazatarako	plazarako	plazetarako
ablative	plazatatik	plazatik	plazetatik
partitive	plazarik	—	—
prolative	plazatzat	—	—

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplaza]

Noun

plaza m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of plaz

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), clipping of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplat͡sa/

Noun

plaza f

1. street

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• plasa

Etymology

Borrowed from English plaza, from Spanish plaza, from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈplaza/ [ˈpla.za]
• Rhymes: -aza
• Syllabification: pla‧za

Noun

plaza (plural)

1. plaza: a town's public square.

   Synonym: alun-alun

2. strip mall

   Synonyms: mal, pusat perbelanjaan

3. parking lot

   Synonym: parkiran

Further reading

• “plaza” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• plazza (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin platēa.

Noun

plaza f (plural plazas) (Sutsilvan)

1. place, position
2. job, employment

Spanish

Etymology

Semi-learned term taken from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), clipping of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”). Doublet of platea. Compare Portuguese praça.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈplaθa/ [ˈpla.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈplasa/ [ˈpla.sa]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aθa
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: pla‧za

Noun

plaza f (plural plazas)

1. plaza, town square
2. fortified town
3. (employment) position
4. (entertainment) bullring
5. (commerce) mall, shopping center

Derived terms

• aplazar
• biplaza
• borrar la plaza
• caballero en plaza
• en pública plaza
• pasar plaza de
• plaza de abastos
• plaza de aparcamiento
• plaza de armas
• plaza de toros
• plaza mayor
• plazoleta
• plazuela
• socorrer la plaza

Related terms

• plazo

Descendants

• → Basque: plaza
• → Bikol Central: plasa
• → English: plaza
  • → Thai: พลาซ่า (plaa-sâa)

See also

• zócalo

Further reading

• “plaza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• La Paz