Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria

English

Etymology

Named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton.

Proper noun

Lake Victoria

1. The largest lake in Africa, with shoreline in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania; one of the African Great Lakes.

Translations

African lake

Afrikaans: Victoriameer Albanian: Liqeni Viktoria Amharic: ቪክቶሪያ ሀይቅ (viktoriya häyḳ) Arabic: بُحَيْرَة فِيكْتُورِيَا‎‎ f (buḥayra(t) fīktūriyā) Armenian: Վիկտորիա լիճ (Viktoria lič) Azerbaijani: Viktoriya gölü (az) Belarusian: Вікторыя f (Viktóryja) Bengali: ভিক্টোরিয়া হ্রদ (bhikṭoriya hrôdô) Breton: Lenn Victoria m Bulgarian: Виктория f (Viktorija) Burmese: ဝိတိုရိယအိုင် (wi.tuiri.ya.uing) Catalan: llac Victòria m Chechen: Викто́ри (Viktóri) Chinese: Mandarin: 維多利亞湖／维多利亚湖 (zh) (Wéiduōlìyà Hú) Czech: Viktoriino jezero n Danish: Victoriasøen c Dutch: Victoriameer n Esperanto: Viktoria lago Estonian: Victoria järv Faroese: Viktoriavatn n Finnish: Victorianjärvi French: lac Victoria (fr) m Galician: Lago Vitoria m Georgian: ვიქტორიას ტბა (vikṭorias ṭba) German: Victoriasee m Greek: Λίμνη Βικτόρια f (Límni Viktória) Gujarati: વિક્ટોરિયા તળાવ (vikṭoriyā taḷāv) Hebrew: אגם ויקטוריה‎ m (agám viktória) Hindi: विक्टोरिया झील (vikṭoriyā jhīl) Hungarian: Viktória-tó Icelandic: Viktoríuvatn n Ido: Lago Viktoria Indonesian: Danau Victoria Irish: Loch Victoria m Italian: lago Vittoria m Japanese: ヴィクトリア湖 (Vikutoria-ko) Kannada: ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯಾ ಸರೋವರ (vikṭōriyā sarōvara) Kazakh: Виктория көлі (Viktoriä kölı) Khmer: បឹងវិចតូរីយ៉ា (bəngvɨctouriiyaa) Korean: 빅토리아호 (biktoriaho) Kyrgyz: Виктория көлү (Viktoriya kölü) Latvian: Viktorijas ezers m Lithuanian: Viktorijos ežeras m Luganda: Nnalubaale Macedonian: Викториино Езеро n (Viktoriino Ezero) Malay: Tasik Victoria Malayalam: വിക്ടോറിയ തടാകം (vikṭōṟiya taṭākaṃ) Marathi: व्हिक्टोरिया सरोवर (vhikṭoriyā sarovar) Norwegian: Bokmål: Victoriasjøen m Nynorsk: Victoriasjøen m Occitan: lac Victòria m Oromo: Hara Viktooriyaa Ossetian: Виктори (Viktori) Persian: دریاچه ویکتوریا‎ (daryâče viktôriyâ) Polish: Jezioro Wiktorii n Portuguese: Lago Vitória m Punjabi: ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ ਝੀਲ (pa) (vikṭorīā jhīl) Romanian: Lacul Victoria m Russian: Викто́рия (ru) f (Viktórija), озеро Викто́рия n (ozero Viktórija) Rwanda-Rundi: Nyanza Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Викторијино језеро n Roman: Viktorijino jezero (sh) n Slovak: Viktóriino jazero n Slovene: Viktorijino jezero (sl) n Somali: Harta Fiktooriya Spanish: Lago Victoria m Swahili: Ziwa Victoria Swedish: Victoriasjön c Tagalog: Lawa ng Victoria Tajik: кӯли Виктория (küli Viktoriya) Tamil: விக்டோரியா ஏரி (vikṭōriyā ēri) Telugu: విక్టోరియా సరస్సు (te) (vikṭōriyā sarassu) Thai: ทะเลสาบวิกตอเรีย (tá-lee-sàap wík-dtɔɔ-riia) Turkish: Victoria Gölü Turkmen: Wiktoriýa köli Ukrainian: Вікто́рія (uk) f (Viktórija), озеро Вікто́рія n (ozero Viktórija) Uzbek: Viktoriya Vietnamese: hồ Victoria Welsh: Llyn Victoria m West Frisian: Fiktoariamar

Further reading

• “Lake Victoria”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Lake Victoria, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Lake Victoria at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “Lake Victoria”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “Lake Victoria” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.