Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi

English

Alternative forms

• Abu Zabi, Abu Zaby, Abū Ẓaby (stricter transliterations)

Etymology

From Arabic أَبُو ظَبْي‎ (ʾabū ẓaby, “father of the gazelle”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.bu ˈdɑ.bi/, /ˈɑ.bu ˈðɑ.bi/, /ˈɑ.bu ˈdæ.bi/[1][2]

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Proper noun

Abu Dhabi

1. The capital city of the United Arab Emirates; capital of Abu Dhabi emirate.
2. An emirate of the United Arab Emirates, on the southern Persian Gulf.

   Holonym: United Arab Emirates

   Coordinate terms: Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwain

Translations

capital of UAE

Afrikaans: Aboe Dhabi Albanian: Abu Dabi Amharic: አቡ ዳቢ (ʾäbu dabi) Arabic: أَبُو ظَبْي‎ f (ʾabū ẓaby) Armenian: Աբու Դաբի (hy) (Abu Dabi) Assamese: আবু জাবী (abu zabi), আবু ঢাবী (abu dhabi) Azerbaijani: Əbu-Dabi (az) Bashkir: Әбү-Дәби (Äbü-Däbi) Belarusian: А́бу-Да́бі m (Ábu-Dábi) Bengali: আবুধাবি (abudhabi) Bulgarian: А́бу Да́би m (Ábu Dábi) Burmese: အဘူဒါဘီမြို့ (a.bhudabhi-mrui.) Chinese: Cantonese: 阿布扎比 (aa3 bou3 zaat3 bei2) Mandarin: 阿布扎比 (zh) (Ābùzābǐ) Czech: Abú Zabí (cs) n Danish: Abu Dhabi n Dutch: Abu Dhabi (nl) n, Aboe Dhabi n Esperanto: Abu-Dabio (eo), Abudabio Estonian: Abu Dhabi (et) Finnish: Abu Dhabi (fi) French: Abou Dabi (fr) m, Abou Dhabi (fr) m Galician: Abu Dabi Georgian: აბუ-დაბი (abu-dabi) German: Abu Dhabi (de) n Greek: Άμπου Ντάμπι n (Ámpou Dámpi) Hebrew: אַבּוּ דַּאבִּי‎ f (ábu dábi) Hindi: अबू धाबी m (abū dhābī) Hungarian: Abu-Dzabi (hu) Icelandic: Abú Dabí Ido: Abu Dhabi Indonesian: Abu Dhabi Irish: Abú Daibí m Italian: Abu Dhabi (it) Japanese: アブダビ (ja) (Abudabi) Kazakh: Абу-Даби (kk) (Abu-Dabi) Khmer: អាប៊ុយដាប៊ី (km) (ʼaabuydaabii) Korean: 아부다비 (Abudabi) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Ebû Zebî Kyrgyz: Абу-Даби (ky) (Abu-Dabi) Lao: ອາບູດາບີ (ʼā bū dā bī) Latvian: Abū Dabī Lithuanian: Abu Dabis (lt) m Macedonian: Абу Даби (mk) m (Abu Dabi) Malay: Abu Dhabi Maltese: Abu Dhabi Mongolian: Cyrillic: Абу-Даби (Abu-Dabi) Norwegian: Bokmål: Abu Dhabi Nynorsk: Abu Dhabi Pashto: ابوظبي‎ f (abozabi) Persian: ابوظبی‎ (abuzabi) Polish: Abu Zabi (pl) n Portuguese: Abu Dhabi (pt) Romanian: Abu Dhabi (ro) Russian: А́бу-Да́би (ru) m (Ábu-Dábi) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Абу Даби m Roman: Abu Dabi m Sinhalese: අබුඩාබි (abuḍābi) Slovak: Abú Zabí (sk) n, Abú Dábí n Slovene: Abu Dabi m Spanish: Abu Dabi (es) Swedish: Abu Dhabi (sv) n Tagalog: Abu Dhabi Tajik: Абузабӣ (Abuzabī) Tamil: அபுதாபி (ta) (aputāpi) Tatar: Әбу-Даби (Äbu-Dabi) Thai: อาบูดาบี (aa-buu-daa-bii) Tibetan: ཨ་པོའུ་དྷ་པེ (a po'u dha pe) Turkish: Abu Dabi Turkmen: Abu-Dabi Ukrainian: А́бу-Да́бі (uk) m (Ábu-Dábi) Urdu: ابو ظہبی‎ m (abū zahabī), ابوظہبی‎ m (abūzahabī) Uyghur: ئەبۇ زەبى‎ (ebu zebi) Uzbek: Abu-Dabi Vietnamese: A-bu Đa-bi (vi) Võro: Abu Dhabi West Frisian: Abû Daby n Yiddish: אַבו דאַבי‎ n (abu dabi)

emirate

Arabic: إِمَارَة أَبُو ظَبْي‎ f (ʾimārat ʾabū ẓaby) Armenian: Աբու Դաբի (hy) (Abu Dabi) Esperanto: Abudabio Irish: Abú Daibí m Persian: امارت ابوظبی‎ (emârat-e abuzabi) Russian: А́бу-Да́би (ru) m (Ábu-Dábi) Tajik: Иморати Абузабӣ (Imorati Abuzabī) Uyghur: ئەبۇ زەبى ئەمىرلىكى‎ (ebu zebi emirliki) West Frisian: Abû Daby n

References

1. Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], →ISBN), page 6
2. Christine A. Lindberg, editor (2002), “Abu Dhabi”, in The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, →ISBN, page 5.

Further reading

• Abu Dhabi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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German

Etymology

From Arabic أَبُو ظَبْي‎ (ʾabū ẓaby), probably in part through English Abu Dhabi, as the transliteration dh for Arabic ظ‎ (ẓ) is not common in German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌabuˈdaːbi/
• IPA^(key): /ˌabuˈdabi/ (rare; learned)

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Proper noun

Abu Dhabi n (proper noun, genitive Abu Dhabis or (optionally with an article) Abu Dhabi)

1. Abu Dhabi (an emirate of the United Arab Emirates, on the southern Persian Gulf)
2. Abu Dhabi (the capital city of the United Arab Emirates)

Declension

Declension of Abu Dhabi [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Abu Dhabi
genitive	des	Abu Dhabis, Abu Dhabi1
dative	dem	Abu Dhabi
accusative	das	Abu Dhabi

¹Optionally with an article.

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Abu Dhabi f

1. Abu Dhabi (an emirate of the United Arab Emirates, on the southern Persian Gulf)
2. Abu Dhabi (the capital city of the United Arab Emirates)