Kenya

Kenya

See also: Kenýa, Kénya, Kênya, and kenyà

English

Etymology

Probably Kikuyu kĩrĩma (“ostrich”) + Kikuyu nyaga (“mountain”), referring to Mount Kenya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛn.jə/, (dated) /ˈkiːn.jə/
• (Kenya) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛ.ɲa]

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

• Rhymes: (dated) -iːnjə
• Hyphenation: Ken‧ya, Hyphenation: Ke‧nya

Proper noun

Kenya

1. A country in Eastern Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Translations

country in Eastern Africa

Afrikaans: Kenia Albanian: Kenia (sq) f Amharic: ኬንያ (kenya) Arabic: كِينِيَا‎ f (kēniyā) Armenian: Քենիա (Kʿenia) Asturian: Keña f Azerbaijani: Keniya (az) Bashkir: Кения (Keniya) Belarusian: Ке́нія f (Kjénija) Bengali: কেনিয়া (bn) (keniya) Breton: Kenya Bulgarian: Ке́ния f (Kénija) Burmese: ကင်ညာ (kangnya) Chinese: Mandarin: 肯尼亞／肯尼亚 (zh) (Kěnníyà), 肯亞／肯亚 (zh) (Kěnyà) (Taiwan) Crimean Tatar: Keniya Czech: Keňa (cs) f Danish: Kenya Dinka: Kenya Dutch: Kenia (nl) n, Kenya (nl) n Esperanto: Kenjo Estonian: Keenia (et), Kenya (et) Faroese: Kenja n Finnish: Kenia (fi) French: Kenya (fr) Galician: Quenia (gl) f Georgian: კენია (ḳenia) German: Kenia (de) Greek: Κένυα (el) f (Kénya) Gujarati: કેન્યા (kenyā) Hausa: Kenya Hebrew: קֶנְיָה‎ f (kenya) Hindi: कीनिया (hi) (kīniyā), केन्या (kenyā), केनिया (hi) m (keniyā), कीनया m (kīnyā), कीनीया m (kīnīyā), केनया m (kenyā), कीन्या m (kīnyā) Hungarian: Kenya (hu) Icelandic: Kenía (is) f Ido: Kenia (io) Indonesian: Kenya (id) Interlingua: Kenya Irish: An Chéinia f Italian: Kenya (it) Japanese: ケニア (ja) (Kenia) Kalenjin: Kenya Kamba: Kenya Kannada: ಕೀನ್ಯಾ (kīnyā) Kazakh: Кения (Keniä) Khmer: កេនយ៉ា (km) (keenyaa) Kikuyu: Kenya Kis: Kenya Korean: 케냐 (ko) (Kenya), 케니아 (ko) (Kenia) (North Korea) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کینیا‎ (kînya) Kyrgyz: Кения (ky) (Keniya) Lao: ເກນຢາ (kēn yā) Latgalian: Keneja Latin: Kenia Latvian: Kenija f Lithuanian: Kenija (lt) f Luhya: Kenya Luo: Kenya Macedonian: Кенија (mk) f (Kenija) Malay: Kenya Malayalam: കെനിയ (keniya) Maltese: il-Kenja f Maori: Kēnia Marathi: केनिया (keniyā) Mari: Western Mari: Кени (Keni) Meru: Kenya Mongolian: Кени (Keni) Nahuatl: Quenia Navajo: Dził Dah Gai Biyaagi Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah Norman: Qùenia m, Kenya North Frisian: Keenia Northern Sami: Kenia Norwegian: Bokmål: Kenya (no) Nynorsk: Kenya (nn) Occitan: Kenya (oc) m Oriya: କେନିଆ (kenia) Papiamentu: Kenia Pashto: کېنيا‎ (kenyā) Persian: کنیا‎ (keniyâ) Polish: Kenia (pl) f Portuguese: Quénia (pt) m (Portugal), Quênia (pt) m (Brazil) Punjabi: ਕੀਨੀਆ (kīnīā) Quechua: Kinya Romanian: Kenya (ro) f Russian: Ке́ния (ru) f (Kénija) Sango: Kenyäa (sg) Sardinian: Kènya Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Кенија f Roman: Kenija (sh) f Sinhalese: කෙන්යාව (kenyāwa) Slovak: Keňa (sk) f Slovene: Kénija (sl) f Somali: Kiinya Spanish: Kenia (es) f Swahili: Kenya (sw) Swedish: Kenya (sv) Tagalog: Kenya (tl) Tajik: Кения (Keniya) Tamil: கென்யா (keṉyā) Tatar: Кения (Keniya) Telugu: కెన్యా (te) (kenyā) Thai: เคนยา (th) (ken-yâa) Tibetan: ཁེ་ནི་ཡ། (khe ni ya) Tigrinya: ኬንያ (kenya) Turkish: Kenya (tr) Turkmen: Keniýa Ukrainian: Ке́нія (uk) f (Kénija) Urdu: کینیا‎ (kīniyā) Uyghur: كېنىيە‎ (këniye) Uzbek: Keniya (uz) Vietnamese: Kê-ni-a Western Panjabi: کینیا‎ Yakut: Кения (Keniya) Yiddish: קעניע‎ (kenye) Yoruba: Kenya

See also

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Further reading

• Kenya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kanye, Yanke, nakey

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Catalan

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ɲə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ɲa/

• Audio (Valencian)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ke‧nya

Proper noun

Kenya m or f

1. Kenya

Derived terms

• kenyà

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Dinka

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya

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French

Etymology

English Kenya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke.nja/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Kenya m

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛɲɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ke‧nya
• Rhymes: -ɲɒ

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Kenya	—
accusative	Kenyát	—
dative	Kenyának	—
instrumental	Kenyával	—
causal-final	Kenyáért	—
translative	Kenyává	—
terminative	Kenyáig	—
essive-formal	Kenyaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Kenyában	—
superessive	Kenyán	—
adessive	Kenyánál	—
illative	Kenyába	—
sublative	Kenyára	—
allative	Kenyához	—
elative	Kenyából	—
delative	Kenyáról	—
ablative	Kenyától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Kenyáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Kenyáéi	—

Possessive forms of Kenya
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Kenyám	—
2nd person sing.	Kenyád	—
3rd person sing.	Kenyája	—
1st person plural	Kenyánk	—
2nd person plural	Kenyátok	—
3rd person plural	Kenyájuk	—

Derived terms

• kenyai

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya

Related terms

• kenyaner
• kenyansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya

Related terms

• kenyan, kenyanar
• kenyansk

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Kenya m

1. Alternative spelling of Quénia

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Swahili

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Kenya) IPA^(key): /kɛ.ɲɑ/

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya

Derived terms

• Mkenya

See also

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

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Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Kenya n (genitive Kenyas)

1. Kenya

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Kenia (“Kenya”) or English Kenya.

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya

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Turkish

Proper noun

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Declension

declension of Kenya

	singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz)
nominative (yalın)	Kenya
accusative (belirtme)	Kenya'yı
dative (yönelme)	Kenya'ya
locative (bulunma)	Kenya'da
ablative (çıkma)	Kenya'dan
genitive (tamlayan)	Kenya'nın

    possessive of Kenya

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Kenya'm	Kenyalarım / Kenya'larım
senin (your)	Kenya'n	Kenyaların / Kenya'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Kenya'sı	Kenyaları / Kenya'ları
bizim (our)	Kenya'mız	Kenyalarımız / Kenya'larımız
sizin (your)	Kenya'nız	Kenyalarınız / Kenya'larınız
onların (their)	Kenya'sı / Kenyaları / Kenya'ları	Kenyaları / Kenya'ları

See also

• (countries of Africa) Afrika ülkesi; Angola, Batı Sahra, Benin, Botsvana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cezayir, Cibuti, Çad, Ekvator Ginesi, Eritre, Esvatini, Etiyopiya, Fas, Fildişi Sahili, Gabon, Gambiya, Gana, Gine, Gine-Bissau, Güney Afrika, Güney Sudan, Kamerun, Kenya, Komorlar, Kongo Cumhuriyeti, Kongo Demokratik Cumhuriyeti, Lesotho, Liberya, Libya, Madagaskar, Malavi, Mali, Mauritius, Mısır, Moritanya, Mozambik, Namibya, Nijer, Nijeria, Orta Afrika Cumhuriyeti, Ruanda, São Tomé ve Príncipe, Senegal, Seyşeller, Sierra Leone, Somali, Sudan, Tanzanya, Togo, Tunus, Uganda, Yeşil Burun, Zambiya, Zimbabve ^{(Category: tr:Countries in Africa) [edit]}