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Ragusa

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Borrowed from Italian Ragusa, from Latin Ragusia. Probably from Proto-Albanian *rāguša (“grape”) (modern Albanian rrush)

proper noun Ragusas

  1. countable, uncountable A province of Sicily, Italy.
  2. countable, uncountable The capital of Ragusa, Italy.
  3. countable, uncountable Former name of Dubrovnik: a port city in southern Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea.
  4. countable, historical, uncountable The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic centered in Dubrovnik.
  5. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Italian.

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name province of Sicily

日本語ラグーザ Ragūza
中文拉古薩 /拉古萨 Lāgǔsà
हिन्दीरागुसा rāgusā
FrançaisRaguse
ItalianoRagusa
ΕλληνικάΡαγκούσα Ragkoúsa
РусскийРагу́за Ragúza

name capital of the Italian province

日本語ラグーザ Ragūza
中文拉古薩 /拉古萨 Lāgǔsà
FrançaisRaguse
ItalianoRagusa
РусскийРагу́за Ragúza

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MLA

"Ragusa." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ragusa. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

Ragusa. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ragusa

Chicago

"Ragusa." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ragusa.

BibTeX
@misc{ragusa_2026,
  title = {Ragusa},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ragusa},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}