Rwanda

Rwanda

English

Etymology

From Rwanda-Rundi u Rwanda from the archaic verb -anda (“to expand”). Compare Zulu anda (“to multiply”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈændə/, /ɹəˈwændə/, /ɹəˈwɒndə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹuˈɑndə/, /ɹəˈwɑndə/

• Audio (UK)

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Proper noun

Rwanda

1. A country in East Africa.
2. The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Rwanda.

   Synonym: Kinyarwanda

3. The genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994.
   • 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:

     VINCENT: Have you ever heard of Rwanda?

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Rwandan

Translations

country

Afrikaans: Rwanda Amharic: ሩዋንዳ (ruwanda) Arabic: رُوَانْدَا‎ f (ruwāndā) Armenian: Ռուանդա (Ṙuanda) Azerbaijani: Ruanda (az) Belarusian: Руа́нда f (Ruánda) Bengali: রুয়ান্ডা (bn) (ruyanḍa) Bishnupriya Manipuri: রুয়ান্ডা Breton: Rwanda (br) Bulgarian: Руа́нда f (Ruánda) Burmese: ရဝမ်ဒါ (ra.wamda) Catalan: Ruanda (ca), Rwanda Chinese: Mandarin: 盧旺達／卢旺达 (zh) (Lúwàngdá); (Taiwan) 盧安達／卢安达 (zh) (Lú'āndá) Czech: Rwanda (cs) f Danish: Rwanda (da) Dinka: Ruanda Dutch: Rwanda (nl) n Esperanto: Ruando (eo) Finnish: Ruanda (fi) French: Ruanda (fr) m, Rwanda (fr) m Georgian: რუანდა (ruanda) German: Ruanda (de) n Greek: Ρουάντα (el) f (Rouánta) Hausa: Ruwanda Hebrew: רואנדה‎ (ruanda) Hindi: रवांडा (hi) (ravāṇḍā) Hungarian: Ruanda (hu) Interlingua: Rwanda Italian: Ruanda (it) Japanese: ルワンダ (ja) (Ruwanda) Kalenjin: Rwanda Kamba: Rwanda, Rwanda Kazakh: Руанда (Ruanda) Khmer: រវ៉ាន់ដា (km) (rɔvandaa) Khoekhoe: Roandab m Kikuyu: Rwanda Korean: 르완다 (ko) (Reuwanda) Kyrgyz: Руанда (Ruanda) Luhya: Rwanda Luo: Rwanda Macedonian: Руа́нда (mk) f (Ruánda) Malay: Rwanda Malayalam: റുവാണ്ട (ṟuvāṇṭa) Maltese: ir-Ruanda Maori: Rāwana Meru: Rwanda Mongolian: Руанда (mn) (Ruanda) Navajo: Wánda Dineʼé bikéyah Norman: Rwanda m Norwegian: Rwanda (no) Occitan: Rwanda (oc) m Persian: رواندا‎ (ruândâ) Polish: Rwanda (pl) Portuguese: Ruanda (pt) m Romanian: Ruanda f, Rwanda (ro) f Rwanda-Rundi: u Rwanda (rw) Russian: Руа́нда (ru) f (Ruánda) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Руанда f Roman: Ruanda (sh) f Shan: မိူင်းရဝၢၼ်းတႃႇ (móeng rǎ wáan tàa) Sinhalese: රුවන්ඩාව (ruwanḍāwa) Slovak: Rwanda f Slovene: Ruanda (sl) f Spanish: Ruanda (es) f Swahili: Rwanda (sw) Swedish: Rwanda (sv) Tagalog: Ruwanda Tajik: Руанда (Ruanda) Thai: รวันดา (th) (rá-wan-dâa) Tigrinya: ሩዋንዳ (ruwanda) Turkish: Ruanda (tr) Ukrainian: Руа́нда (uk) f (Ruánda) Urdu: روانڈا‎ Vietnamese: Ru-an-đa Yoruba: Ruwanda

language — see Kinyarwanda

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

• Rwanda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ethnologue entry for Rwanda, kin ⁠

Anagrams

• Radwan, adrawn

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda (a country in Africa)

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Catalan

Proper noun

Rwanda ?

1. Alternative spelling of Ruanda

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Czech

Proper noun

Rwanda f

1. Rwanda (a country in Africa)

Related terms

• rwandský
• Rwanďan

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Rwanda n

1. Rwanda (a country in Africa)

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French

Alternative forms

• Ruanda

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁwɑ̃.da/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Rwanda m

1. Rwanda (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms

• rwandais
• Rwandais

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda (a country in Africa)

Related terms

• rwander
• rwandisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda (a country in Africa)

Related terms

• rwandar
• rwandisk

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Polish

Alternative forms

• Ruanda

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrvan.da/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: Rwan‧da

Proper noun

Rwanda f

1. Rwanda (a country in Africa)

Declension

Declension of Rwanda

	singular
nominative	Rwanda
genitive	Rwandy
dative	Rwandzie
accusative	Rwandę
instrumental	Rwandą
locative	Rwandzie
vocative	Rwando

Derived terms

adjective

• rwandyjski

 

nouns

• Rwandyjczyk
• Rwandyjka

 

Further reading

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

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Rwanda-Rundi

Noun

Rwānda class 9 (or class 11)

1. Rwanda (a country in Africa)

Related terms

• u Rwanda

Descendants

See Rwanda § Translations

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Rwanda

1. Rwanda (a country in Africa)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²rvanda/

Proper noun

Rwanda n (genitive Rwandas)

1. Rwanda (a country in Africa)

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Welsh

Proper noun

Rwanda f (not mutable)

1. Rwanda (a country in Africa)

Derived terms

• Gweriniaeth Rwanda (“Republic of Rwanda”)