Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

See also: zimbabwe

English

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ/
• Hyphenation: Zim‧ba‧bwe

  • Audio (UK)

    (file)

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zimbabwe. Formerly called Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Translations

Republic of Zimbabwe

Afrikaans: Zimbabwe (af) Albanian: Zimbabveja (sq) f Amharic: ዚምባብዌ (zimbabwe) Arabic: زِيمْبَابْوِي‎ m (zīmbābwī) Armenian: Զիմբաբվե (hy) (Zimbabve) Azerbaijani: Zimbabve (az) Belarusian: Зімба́бвэ n (Zimbábve) Bengali: জিম্বাবুয়ে (bn) (jimbabuye) Breton: Zimbabwe (br) ? Bulgarian: Зимба́бве n (Zimbábve) Burmese: ဇင်ဘာဘွေ (jangbhabhwe) Catalan: Zimbàbue (ca) Chichewa: Zimbabwe Chinese: Mandarin: 津巴布韋／津巴布韦 (zh) (Jīnbābùwéi) Czech: Zimbabwe (cs) n Danish: Zimbabwe (da) Dhivehi: ޒިމްބާބުވޭ‎ (zim̊bābuvē) Dutch: Zimbabwe (nl) n Dzongkha: ཛིམ་བབ་ཝེ་ (dzim bab we) Esperanto: Zimbabvo (eo) Estonian: Zimbabwe (et) Faroese: Simbabvi n Finnish: Zimbabwe (fi) French: Zimbabwe (fr) m Georgian: ზიმბაბვე (zimbabve) German: Simbabwe (de) n Greek: Ζιμπάμπουε (el) f (Zimpámpoue) Hausa: Zimbabuwe Hebrew: זימבבואה‎ (zimbabve) Hindi: ज़िम्बाब्वे (hi) (zimbābve) Hungarian: Zimbabwe (hu) Icelandic: Simbabve (is) n Ido: Zimbabwe (io) Indonesian: Zimbabwe (id) Interlingua: Zimbabwe Irish: An tSiombáib f, Poblacht na Siombáibe f Italian: Zimbabwe (it) m Japanese: ジンバブエ (ja) (Jinbabue) Kalenjin: Zimbabwe Kamba: Zimbabwe Kazakh: Зимбабве (Zimbabve) Khmer: ស៊ីមបាវ៉េ (km) (siimbaavee) Kikuyu: Zimbabwe Korean: 짐바브웨 (ko) (Jimbabeuwe) Kyrgyz: Зимбабве (Zimbabve) Lao: ຊິມບັບເວ (sim bap wē) Latvian: Zimbabve Lithuanian: Zimbabvė (lt) Luhya: Zimbabwe Luo: Zimbabwe Macedonian: Зимба́бве (mk) n (Zimbábve) Malay: Zimbabwe Maltese: iż-Żimbabwe Maori: Timuwawe Meru: Zimbabwe Mongolian: Зимбабве (Zimbabve) Navajo: Tsé Bee Bighan Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah Norman: Zimbabwe m Norwegian: Bokmål: Zimbabwe (no) Nynorsk: Zimbabwe (nn) Pashto: زېمبابوې‎ Persian: زیمبابوه‎ (zimbâbve) Polish: Zimbabwe (pl) Portuguese: Zimbabwe (pt) m, Zimbábue (pt) m, Zimbabué (pt) m Romanian: Zimbabwe (ro) Russian: Зимба́бве (ru) n (Zimbábvɛ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Зимбабве m Roman: Zimbabve (sh) m Shona: Zimbabwe Sinhalese: සිම්බාබ්වේ (simbābwē) Slovak: Zimbabwe n Slovene: Zimbabve (sl) n Spanish: Zimbabue (es) Swahili: Zimbabwe Swedish: Zimbabwe (sv) Tagalog: Simbabwe Tajik: Зимбабве (Zimbabve) Tatar: Зимбабве (Zimbabwe) Telugu: జింబాబ్వే (te) (jimbābvē) Thai: ซิมบับเว (th) (sim-báp-wee) Tibetan: ཛིམ་བབ་ཝི། (dzim bab wi) Tigrinya: ዚምባብዌ (zimbabwe) Turkish: Zimbabve (tr) Turkmen: Zimbabwe Ukrainian: Зімба́бве (uk) n (Zimbábve) Urdu: زمبابوے‎ Uyghur: زىمبابۋې‎ (zimbabwë) Uzbek: Zimbabve (uz) Vietnamese: Dim-ba-bu-ê Yiddish: זימבאַבווע‎ (zimbabve) Yoruba: Sìǹbábúwè

See also

• Appendix: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]}

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Africa)

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Chichewa

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ziˈᵐbá.ɓʷe/

Proper noun

Zimbábwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Africa)

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Czech

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Proper noun

Zimbabwe n

1. Zimbabwe

Related terms

• zimbabwský
• Zimbabwan

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Dutch

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌzɪmˈbɑp.ʋə/, /ˌzɪmˈbɑ.bʋə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Zim‧bab‧we

Proper noun

Zimbabwe n

1. Zimbabwe

Derived terms

• Zimbabwaan

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Finnish

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsimbɑbwe/, [ˈts̠imbɑbwe̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑbwe
• Syllabification^(key): tsim‧bab‧we

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe

Declension

Inflection of Zimbabwe (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		Zimbabwe	—
genitive		Zimbabwen	—
partitive		Zimbabwea	—
illative		Zimbabween	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Zimbabwe	—
accusative	nom.	Zimbabwe	—
	gen.	Zimbabwen
genitive		Zimbabwen	—
partitive		Zimbabwea	—
inessive		Zimbabwessa	—
elative		Zimbabwesta	—
illative		Zimbabween	—
adessive		Zimbabwella	—
ablative		Zimbabwelta	—
allative		Zimbabwelle	—
essive		Zimbabwena	—
translative		Zimbabweksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Zimbabwetta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Zimbabwe (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Zimbabweni	Zimbabwemme
2nd person	Zimbabwesi	Zimbabwenne
3rd person	Zimbabwensa

Derived terms

• adjectives: zimbabwelainen
• nouns: zimbabwelainen

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzimbɒbvɛ]
• Hyphenation: Zim‧bab‧we
• Rhymes: -vɛ

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Zimbabwe	—
accusative	Zimbabwét	—
dative	Zimbabwénak	—
instrumental	Zimbabwéval	—
causal-final	Zimbabwéért	—
translative	Zimbabwévá	—
terminative	Zimbabwéig	—
essive-formal	Zimbabweként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Zimbabwéban	—
superessive	Zimbabwén	—
adessive	Zimbabwénál	—
illative	Zimbabwéba	—
sublative	Zimbabwéra	—
allative	Zimbabwéhoz	—
elative	Zimbabwéból	—
delative	Zimbabwéról	—
ablative	Zimbabwétól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Zimbabwéé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Zimbabwééi	—

Possessive forms of Zimbabwe
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Zimbabwém	—
2nd person sing.	Zimbabwéd	—
3rd person sing.	Zimbabwéja	—
1st person plural	Zimbabwénk	—
2nd person plural	Zimbabwétok	—
3rd person plural	Zimbabwéjuk	—

or somewhat less commonly

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Zimbabwe	—
accusative	Zimbabwét	—
dative	Zimbabwének	—
instrumental	Zimbabwével	—
causal-final	Zimbabwéért	—
translative	Zimbabwévé	—
terminative	Zimbabwéig	—
essive-formal	Zimbabweként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Zimbabwében	—
superessive	Zimbabwén	—
adessive	Zimbabwénél	—
illative	Zimbabwébe	—
sublative	Zimbabwére	—
allative	Zimbabwéhez	—
elative	Zimbabwéből	—
delative	Zimbabwéről	—
ablative	Zimbabwétől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Zimbabwéé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Zimbabwééi	—

Possessive forms of Zimbabwe
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Zimbabwém	—
2nd person sing.	Zimbabwéd	—
3rd person sing.	Zimbabwéje	—
1st person plural	Zimbabwénk	—
2nd person plural	Zimbabwétek	—
3rd person plural	Zimbabwéjük	—

Derived terms

• zimbabwei

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Italian

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/d͡zimˈba.bwe/, (traditional) ^*/d͡zimˈba.bu.e/[1]
• Rhymes: -abwe, (traditional) -abue
• Hyphenation: Zim‧bàb‧we

Proper noun

Zimbabwe m

1. Zimbabwe

Derived terms

• zimbabwiano

References

1. Zimbabwe in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe

Related terms

• zimbabwer
• zimbabwisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe

Related terms

• zimbabwar
• zimbabwisk

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Zimbabwe, from Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zimˈbab.vɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -abvɛ
• Syllabification: Zim‧bab‧we

Proper noun

Zimbabwe n (indeclinable)

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Zimbabwe, from Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Proper noun

Zimbabwe m

1. Alternative form of Zimbabué

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Shona

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z̤i.ᵐba.bwe/

Proper noun

Zimbábwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Africa)

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Slovak

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Proper noun

Zimbabwe n (genitive singular Zimbabwe)

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Africa)

References

• Zimbabwe in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Swahili

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Proper noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern 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

Etymology

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Proper noun

Zimbabwe n (genitive Zimbabwes)

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

Related terms

• zimbabwier
• zimbabwisk
• zimbabwiska

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Tsonga

Noun

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Africa)