Pretoria

Pretoria

See also: pretoria and Pretória

English

Etymology

Named after Andries Pretorius (1798–1853).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɔːɹi.ə/

Proper noun

Pretoria

1. The administrative capital of South Africa.
2. (metonymically) the South African government

Translations

administrative capital of South Africa

Afrikaans: Pretoria (af) Albanian: Pretoria Amharic: ፕሪቶሪያ (pəritoriya) Arabic: بْرِيتُورِيَا‎ f (britūriyā) Armenian: Պրետորիա (Pretoria) Azerbaijani: Pretoriya Belarusian: Прэто́рыя f (Pretóryja) Bengali: প্রিটোরিয়া (priṭoriya) Bulgarian: Прето́рия f (Pretórija) Burmese: ပရီတိုရီးယားမြို့ (pa.rituiri:ya:mrui.) Catalan: Pretòria f Chinese: Mandarin: 比勒陀利亞／比勒陀利亚 (zh) (Bǐlēituólìyà) Czech: Pretorie f Danish: Pretoria n Dutch: Pretoria (nl) n Estonian: Pretoria French: Prétoria (fr) f, Pretoria (fr) f Georgian: პრეტორია (ṗreṭoria) German: Pretoria (de) n Greek: Πραιτώρια (Praitória) Hebrew: פְּרֶטוֹרְיָה‎ f (pretóriya) Hindi: प्रिटोरिया m (priṭoriyā) Hungarian: Pretoria (hu) Icelandic: Pretoría Indonesian: Pretoria Irish: Preatóiria Italian: Pretoria (it) f Japanese: プレトリア (Puretoria) Kazakh: Претория (Pretoriä) Khmer: ប្រេតូរីយ៉ា (km) (preetouriiyaa) Korean: 프리토리아 (Peuritoria) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Pretoria Kyrgyz: Претория (Pretoriya) Latvian: Pretorija f Lithuanian: Pretorija f Macedonian: Преторија f (Pretorija) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Претория (Pretorija) Norwegian: Bokmål: Pretoria Occitan: Pretòria f Pashto: پريتوريا‎ f (рretoryā) Persian: پرتوریا‎ (pretoriyâ) Polish: Pretoria (pl) f Portuguese: Pretória (pt) f Romanian: Pretoria (ro) Russian: Прето́рия (ru) f (Pretórija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Прѐто̄рија f Roman: Pretoria f, Prètōrija (sh) f Slovak: Pretória f Slovene: Pretorija f Southern Ndebele: iPitori Spanish: Pretoria (es) Swahili: Pretoria Swedish: Pretoria (sv) n Tajik: Претория (Pretoriya) Tatar: Претория (Pretoriya) Telugu: ప్రిటోరియా (priṭōriyā) Thai: พริทอเรีย (prí-tɔɔ-riia) Turkish: Pretoria Turkmen: Pretoriýa Ukrainian: Прето́рія f (Pretórija) Urdu: پریٹوریا‎ m (priṭoriyā) Uzbek: Pretoriya Vietnamese: Prê-tô-ri-a, Pri-tơ-ri-a West Frisian: Pretoria n Xhosa: iPitoli Yiddish: פּרעטאָריע‎ n (pretorye) Zulu: iPitoli, ePitoli

Anagrams

• priorate

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prəˈtʊəria/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Pretoria

1. Pretoria (the administrative capital of South Africa)

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans Pretoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prɛˈtɔ.rja/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrja
• Syllabification: Pre‧to‧ria

Proper noun

Pretoria f

1. Pretoria (a city, the administrative capital of South Africa)

Declension

Declension of Pretoria

	singular
nominative	Pretoria
genitive	Pretorii
dative	Pretorii
accusative	Pretorię
instrumental	Pretorią
locative	Pretorii
vocative	Pretorio

Derived terms

adjective

• pretoryjski

 

nouns

• pretoryjczyk
• pretoryjka

 

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈtoɾja/ [pɾeˈt̪o.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -oɾja
• Syllabification: Pre‧to‧ria

Proper noun

Pretoria ?

1. Pretoria (the administrative capital of South Africa)