Colombo

Colombo

See also: colombo

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒm.bəʊ/, /kəˈlʌm.bəʊ/, (city also) /ˈkɒl.əm.bəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ

Etymology 1

From Portuguese Colombo, modification (under the influence of the Italian surname, see below) of Sinhalese කොලොන් තොට (kolon toṭa, literally “port on the river Kelani”). Other theories derive the name from Veddah; see w:Colombo § Etymology for more.

Proper noun

Colombo

1. The commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.

Translations

capital of Sri Lanka

Albanian: Kolombo Amharic: ኮሎምቦ (kolombo) Arabic: كُولُومْبُو‎ f (kolombō) Armenian: Կոլոմբո (hy) (Kolombo) Assamese: কলম্বো (kolombü) Azerbaijani: Kolombo (az) Belarusian: Кало́мба m (Kalómba) Bengali: কলম্বো (kôlômbo) Bulgarian: Коло́мбо m (Kolómbo) Burmese: ကိုလံဘို (kuilambhui) Chinese: Cantonese: 科倫坡, 科伦坡 (fo1 leon4 bo1) Mandarin: 科倫坡／科伦坡 (zh) (Kēlúnpō), 可倫坡／可伦坡 (Kělúnpō) Czech: Kolombo (cs) n Danish: Colombo n Dhivehi: ކޮޅުނބު‎ (koḷuᵐbu) Dutch: Colombo n Esperanto: Kolombo (eo) Estonian: Colombo (et) Finnish: Colombo French: Colombo (fr) f Georgian: კოლომბო (ḳolombo) German: Colombo (de) n Greek: Κολόμπο n (Kolómpo) Gujarati: કોલંબો (kolambo) Hebrew: קוֹלוֹמְבּוֹ‎ f (kolómbo) Hindi: कोलंबो m (kolambo) Hungarian: Colombo (hu) Icelandic: Kólombó Indonesian: Kolombo Irish: Colombo Italian: Colombo (it) f Japanese: コロンボ (Koronbo) Kannada: ಕೊಲಂಬೊ (kolambo) Kazakh: Коломбо (Kolombo) Khmer: កូឡុំបូ (km) (koulombou) Korean: 콜롬보 (Kollombo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Colombo (ku) Kyrgyz: Коломбо (Kolombo) Latvian: Kolombo Lithuanian: Kolombas m Macedonian: Коломбо (Kolombo) Malay: Colombo Malayalam: കൊളംബോ (koḷambō) Marathi: कोलंबो (kolambo) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Коломбо (Kolombo) Nepali: कोलम्बो (ne) (kolambo) Norwegian: Bokmål: Colombo (no) Nynorsk: Colombo Oriya: କଲୋମ୍ବୋ (kôlombo) Pashto: کولمبو‎ f (kolāmbó) Persian: کلمبو‎ (kolombo) Polish: Kolombo (pl) n Portuguese: Colombo (pt) f Punjabi: ਕੋਲੰਬੋ (kolambo) Romanian: Colombo (ro) Russian: Коло́мбо m (Kolómbo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Коломбо m Roman: Kolombo m Sinhalese: කොළඹ (koḷaᵐba) Slovak: Kolombo n Slovene: Kolombo m Spanish: Colombo (es) m Swedish: Colombo (sv) n Tagalog: Colombo Tajik: Коломбо (Kolombo) Tamil: கொழும்பு (ta) (koḻumpu) Tatar: Коломбо (Qolombo) Telugu: కొలంబో (kolambō) Thai: โคลัมโบ (koo-lam-boo) Tibetan: ཁོ་ལུམ་པོ (kho lum po) Turkmen: Kolombo Ukrainian: Коло́мбо m (Kolómbo) Urdu: کولمبو‎ m (kolambo) Uyghur: كولومبو‎ (kolombo) Uzbek: Kolombo Vietnamese: Cô-lôm-bô Yiddish: קאָלאָמבאָ‎ n (kolombo)

Etymology 2

From Italian Colombo, from colombo (“pigeon, dove”).

Proper noun

Colombo

1. A surname from Italian.

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French

Proper noun

Colombo m

1. Colombo

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlom.bo/
• Rhymes: -ombo
• Hyphenation: Co‧lóm‧bo

Proper noun

Colombo m

1. Columbus

Proper noun

Colombo f

1. Colombo (the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈlõ.bu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈlõ.bu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈlõ.bo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈlõ.bu/

Proper noun

Colombo f

1. Colombo (the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka)

Proper noun

Colombo m

1. Columbus

Proper noun

Colombo

1. A town and municipality of Paraná, Brazil

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlombo/ [koˈlõm.bo]
• Rhymes: -ombo
• Syllabification: Co‧lom‧bo

Proper noun

Colombo m

1. Colombo (the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka)