"Gran Chaco" meaning in All languages combined

See Gran Chaco on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Forms: the Gran Chaco [canonical]
Etymology: Borrowed from Paraguayan Spanish Gran Chaco, from Spanish gran (“large; great; grand”) + Spanish chaco (“hunting ground”), a calque of Quechua Hatun Chaku. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|Gran Chaco}} Spanish Gran Chaco, {{affix|en|gran|chaco|lang1=es|lang2=es|t1=large; great; grand|t2=hunting ground}} Spanish gran (“large; great; grand”) + Spanish chaco (“hunting ground”), {{der|en|qu|Hatun Chaku}} Quechua Hatun Chaku Head templates: {{en-prop|def=1|nolink=1}} the Gran Chaco
  1. A sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul. Synonyms: Chaco Plain, Dry Chaco Translations (Topographical region): 大廈谷 /大厦谷 (Dà Shà Gǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), グランチャコ (Guranchako) (Japanese), 그란차코 (Geuranchako) (Korean), Hatun Chaku (Quechua), Гран-Ча́ко (Gran-Čáko) (Russian), Вели́кий Ча́ко (Velíkij Čáko) (Russian), Ча́ко (Čáko) (Russian), Gran Chaco [masculine] (Spanish)
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