Havana
Syllables: Ha·va·na/həˈvæ.nə/US/həˈvæ.nə/
Havana proper noun: the capital city of Cuba.
Proper noun
Havana
- The capital city of Cuba.
- It was notable enough that when President Calvin Coolidge visited Havana in 1928, Cuba’s president offered him one at the presidential palace.December 2019/January 2020, Wayne Curtis, “Discover Cuba’s Other Rum Cocktail: El Presidente”, in Garden & Gun, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2021
- The Cuban government.
- A city, the county seat of Mason County, Illinois, United States.
- A minor city in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States.
Noun
Havana (plural Havanas)
- A type of large cigar produced in Cuba.
- Having indicated an arm-chair to me and placed my refreshment near it, he handed me a long, smooth Havana.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
Havana meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
Havana in Hindi
- capital city of Cuba
- हवाना havānā
Havana in Marathi
- capital city of Cuba
- हव्हाना havhānā
- cigar
- हवाना havānā
Havana in Urdu
- capital city of Cuba
- ہوانا havānā
Havana in Bengali
- capital city of Cuba
- হাভানা habhana
More languagesFewer languages
- Havana in Telugu
- హవానా havānā
- Havana in Arabic
- هَافَانَا hāfānā
- Havana in Indonesian
- havana
- Havana in Persian
- هاوانا hâvânâ
- Havana in Thai
- ฮาวานา haa-waa-nâa
- Havana in Vietnamese
- La Ha-ba-na, Ha-va-na
- Havana in Myanmar
- ဟာဗားနား haba:na:
Forms of Havana
| plural | Havanas |
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Origin of Havana
From Spanish La Habana, from Habaguanex, the native American chief (cacique) who controlled the area, the name derived from Taíno sabana (“savannah”). The letter h may be an anthroponymic inflection.
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Questions about Havana
- What does Havana mean?
- Havana means the capital city of Cuba.
- What is Havana in Hindi?
- Havana in Hindi is हवाना (havānā). See Havana meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Havana?
- Havana can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Havana?
- Havana is pronounced /həˈvæ.nə/ (UK).
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Havana (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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