English
Etymology
From Costa Rica + -an.
Noun
Costa Rican (plural Costa Ricans)
- A person from Costa Rica or of Costa Rican descent.
Translations
person from Costa Rica
- Asturian: costarricanu (ast) m, costarricana (ast) f
- Bulgarian: костариканец (kostarikanec), костариканка f (kostarikanka), костариканци pl (kostarikanci)
- Catalan: costa-riqueny (ca) m, costa-riquenya (ca) f
- Czech: Kostaričan (cs) m
- Dutch: Costa Ricaan (nl) m, Costa Ricaanse (nl) f
- Esperanto: kostarikano
- French: Costaricien (fr) m, Costaricienne (fr) f
- Galician: costarriqueño (gl) m
- Georgian: კოსტარიკელი (ḳosṭariḳeli)
- German: Costa-Ricaner (de) m, Costa-Ricanerin (de) f
- Greek: Κοσταρικανός (el) m (Kostarikanós), Κοσταρικανή f (Kostarikaní)
- Irish: Cósta Ríceach m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: costaricaner m, kostarikaner m
- Nynorsk: costarican (nn) m, costaricanar (nn) m, kostarikan (nn) m, kostarikanar (nn) m
- Polish: Kostarykanin (pl) m, Kostarykanka (pl) f
- Portuguese: costa-riquenho (pt) m, costa-riquense (pt) m
- Romanian: costarican (ro) m, costaricană (ro) f
- Russian: костарика́нец (ru) m (kostarikánec), костарика́нка (ru) f (kostarikánka), коста-рика́нец m (kosta-rikánec), коста-рика́нка f (kosta-rikánka)
- Serbo-Croatian: Kostarikanac (sh) m, Kostarikanka f
- Spanish: costarricense (es) m, costarriqueño (es) m, tico (es) m (colloquial)
- Swahili: Mkostarika (sw)
- Turkish: Kosta Rikalı (tr)
- Yiddish: קאָסטאַריקאַנער m (kostarikaner), קאָסטאַריקאַנערין f (kostarikanerin)
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Adjective
Costa Rican (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Costa Rica.
He has a home in the Costa Rican hills.
- Of or pertaining to the people, language, or culture of Costa Rica.
His dialect was distinctly Costa Rican.
2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN[1]:Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores.
Translations
Finnish
Proper noun
Costa Rican
- genitive singular of Costa Rica