Uganda

See also: Úganda

English

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda), from Proto-Bantu *-ganda (family). Cf Kinyarwanda: umuganda (coming together in common purpose, unity).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /(j)uˈɡændə/, /(j)uˈɡɑːndə/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Uganda

  1. A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also


Catalan

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Uganda ?

  1. Uganda

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Proper noun

Uganda

  1. Uganda (a country in Africa)

Czech

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈuɡanda]

Proper noun

Uganda f

  1. Uganda

Further reading

  • Uganda in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • Uganda in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Proper noun

Uganda n

  1. Uganda

Derived terms

  • Ugandees
  • Ugandese

Faroese

Etymology

From Swahili Buganda (subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Proper noun

Uganda n

  1. Uganda

Declension

Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Uganda
Accusative Uganda
Dative Uganda
Genitive Uganda

Finnish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuɡɑndɑ/, [ˈuɡɑndɑ]
  • Rhymes: -uɡɑndɑ
  • Syllabification(key): U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda

  1. Uganda

Declension

Inflection of Uganda (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative Uganda
genitive Ugandan
partitive Ugandaa
illative Ugandaan
singular plural
nominative Uganda
accusative nom. Uganda
gen. Ugandan
genitive Ugandan
partitive Ugandaa
inessive Ugandassa
elative Ugandasta
illative Ugandaan
adessive Ugandalla
ablative Ugandalta
allative Ugandalle
essive Ugandana
translative Ugandaksi
instructive
abessive Ugandatta
comitative
Possessive forms of Uganda (type katiska)
possessor singular plural
1st person Ugandani Ugandamme
2nd person Ugandasi Ugandanne
3rd person Ugandansa

German

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Uganda n (proper noun, genitive Ugandas or (optionally with an article) Uganda)

  1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Further reading

  • Uganda” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈuɡɒndɒ]
  • Hyphenation: Ugan‧da
  • Rhymes: -dɒ

Proper noun

Uganda

  1. Uganda (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Uganda
accusative Ugandát
dative Ugandának
instrumental Ugandával
causal-final Ugandáért
translative Ugandává
terminative Ugandáig
essive-formal Ugandaként
essive-modal
inessive Ugandában
superessive Ugandán
adessive Ugandánál
illative Ugandába
sublative Ugandára
allative Ugandához
elative Ugandából
delative Ugandáról
ablative Ugandától
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Ugandáé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Ugandáéi
Possessive forms of Uganda
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Ugandám
2nd person sing. Ugandád
3rd person sing. Ugandája
1st person plural Ugandánk
2nd person plural Ugandátok
3rd person plural Ugandájuk

Derived terms

  • ugandai

Irish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Proper noun

Uganda m

  1. Uganda

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • Ugandach

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
Uganda nUganda hUganda not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uˈɡan.da/
  • Rhymes: -anda
  • Hyphenation: U‧gàn‧da

Proper noun

Uganda f

  1. Uganda

Anagrams


Japanese

Romanization

Uganda

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ウガンダ

Latin

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Uganda f sg (genitive Ugandae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Uganda

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Uganda
Genitive Ugandae
Dative Ugandae
Accusative Ugandam
Ablative Ugandā
Vocative Uganda

Latvian

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Proper noun

Uganda f (4th declension)

  1. Uganda (a country in Africa)

Declension


Lithuanian

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Proper noun

Uganda f

  1. Uganda (a country in Africa)

Declension

  • ugandietis m, ugandietė f

Norwegian Bokmål

Flag of Uganda

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Proper noun

Uganda

  1. Uganda

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Proper noun

Uganda

  1. Uganda

Polish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uˈɡan.da/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -anda
  • Syllabification: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda f

  1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
  • ugandyjski
nouns

Further reading

  • Uganda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Uganda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈɡɐ̃.dɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈɡɐ̃.da/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /uˈɡɐ̃.dɐ/ [uˈɣɐ̃.dɐ]

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃dɐ
  • Hyphenation: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda m

  1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǔɡaːnda/
  • Hyphenation: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Ùgānda f (Cyrillic spelling У̀га̄нда)

  1. Uganda

Declension


Slovak

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈuɡanda]

Proper noun

Uganda f (genitive singular Ugandy, declension pattern of žena)

  1. Uganda (a country in Africa)

References

  • Uganda in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uˈɡanda/ [uˈɣ̞ãn̪.d̪a]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -anda
  • Syllabification: U‧gan‧da

Proper noun

Uganda ?

  1. Uganda

Swahili

Etymology

From Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Uganda

  1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms

See also


Swedish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Proper noun

Uganda ? (genitive Ugandas)

  1. Uganda (a country in East Africa)

Tagalog

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: U‧gan‧da
  • IPA(key): /ʔuˈɡanda/, [ʔʊˈɣan.dɐ]

Proper noun

Uganda (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜄᜈ᜔ᜇ)

  1. Uganda (a country in Africa)

Turkish

Etymology

From Swahili Uganda (Buganda, subnational kingdom), from Luganda Buganda (land of the Ganda).

Proper noun

Uganda

  1. Uganda (a country in Africa)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

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