Cairo

Cairo

See also: Cai-rô, cải rổ, and cairo

English

Alternative forms

• Caherah, Al-Caherah (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Il Cairo, from Arabic الْقَاهِرَة‎ (al-qāhira)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪɹoʊ/ (capital of Egypt)

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• Rhymes: -aɪɹəʊ (capital of Egypt)
• Homophone: chiro (capital of Egypt)
• IPA^(key): /kɛɹoʊ/, /keɪɹoʊ/ (US towns and cities)

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Proper noun

Cairo

1. The capital city of Egypt.
2. A governorate of Egypt, containing the capital city.
3. Several places in the United States:
   1. A city, the county seat of Grady County, Georgia.
   2. A city, the county seat of Alexander County, Illinois.
   3. An unincorporatedcommunity in Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
   4. An unincorporatedcommunity in Pratt County, Kansas.
   5. A village in Randolph County, Missouri.
   6. A village in Hall County, Nebraska.
   7. A town, a hamlet and census-designated place in Greene County, New York.
   8. A village in Allen County, Ohio.
   9. An unincorporatedcommunity in Stark County, Ohio.
   10. A small unincorporatedcommunity in Coal County, Oklahoma.
   11. An unincorporatedcommunity in Malheur County, Oregon.
   12. An unincorporatedcommunity in Crockett County, Tennessee.
   13. An unincorporatedcommunity in Sumner County, Tennessee.
   14. A town in Ritchie County, West Virginia.
4. A community in the township of Dawn-Euphemia, Ontario, Canada.

Derived terms

• Grand Cairo

Related terms

• Cairene

Translations

capital of Egypt

Afrikaans: Kaïro Akan: Kairo Albanian: Kajro Amharic: ካይሮ (kayro) Arabic: الْقَاهِرَة‎ (ar) f (al-qāhira) Egyptian Arabic: مصر‎ f (maṣr), القاهرة‎ f (el-qāhera) Armenian: Կահիրե (hy) (Kahire) Azerbaijani: Qahirə Basque: Kairo (eu) Belarusian: Каі́р m (Kaír) Bengali: কায়রো (kayôro), কাহিরা (kahira) Breton: Kaero m Bulgarian: Ка́йро m (Kájro) Burmese: ကိုင်ရိုမြို့ (kuing-rui-mrui.) Catalan: Caire (ca) m Chechen: Къахӏира (Qʼahira) Chinese: Cantonese: 開羅, 开罗 (hoi1 lo4) Mandarin: 開羅／开罗 (zh) (Kāiluó) Coptic: ϯⲕⲉϣⲣⲱⲙⲓ f (tikešrōmi) Czech: Káhira (cs) f Danish: Kairo n Dutch: Caïro (nl) n Esperanto: Kairo (eo) Estonian: Kairo (et) Farefare: Kairo Faroese: Kairo Finnish: Kairo (fi) French: Le Caire (fr) m Middle French: Caire Georgian: კაირო (ka) (ḳairo) German: Kairo (de) Greek: Κάιρο (el) n (Káiro) Hausa: Alƙahira Hebrew: קָהִיר‎ (he) f (kahír) Hindi: क़ाहिरा m (qāhirā), क़ैरो m (qairo), काहिरा m (kāhirā) Hungarian: Kairó (hu) Icelandic: Kaíró m Ido: Kairo Indonesian: Kairo Irish: Caireo m Italian: Il Cairo (it) f Japanese: カイロ (ja) (Kairo) Kashubian: Kairo m Kazakh: Каир (Kair) Khmer: កៃរ៉ូ (kayrou), គែរ (km) (kɛɛ) Korean: 카이로 (ko) (Kairo), 까히라 (ko) (Kkahira) (North Korea) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Qahîre (ku) Kyrgyz: Каир (Kair) Lak: Кьагьира (Qʼahira) Lao: ເລີແກ (lœ̄ kǣ) Latin: Cāirus (la) f (Medieval Latin) Latvian: Kaira f Lithuanian: Kairas m Macedonian: Каиро m (Kairo) Malay: Kaherah Malayalam: കെയ്റോ (keyṟō) Maltese: Il-Kajr Marathi: काइरो n (kāiro) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Каир (Kair) Navajo: Kʼaiwo Nepali: काहिरा (kāhirā), काहिरो (kāhiro) Norwegian: Bokmål: Kairo (no) m Nynorsk: Kairo m Pashto: قاهره‎ f (qāherá) Persian: قاهره‎ (fa) (qâhere) Polish: Kair (pl) m Portuguese: Cairo (pt) m Punjabi: ਕਾਹਿਰਾ (kāhirā) Romanian: Cairo (ro) m Romansch: Cairo m Russian: Каи́р (ru) m (Kaír) Scottish Gaelic: Cairo m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ка̀иро m Roman: Kàiro (sh) m Sicilian: Lu Cairu m Slovak: Káhira f Slovene: Kairo (sl) m Somali: Qaahiro Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Kairo m Upper Sorbian: Kairo m Spanish: El Cairo m Swedish: Kairo (sv) n Tagalog: Cairo Tajik: Қоҳира (tg) (Qohira) Tamil: கெய்ரோ (keyrō) Telugu: కైరో (kairō) Thai: ไคโร (kai-roo) Turkish: Kahire (tr) Turkmen: Kahire Ukrainian: Каї́р m (Kajír) Urdu: قائرہ‎ m (qāirā), قاہرہ‎ m (qāhirā) Uyghur: قاھىرە‎ (qahire) Uzbek: Qohira (uz) Vietnamese: Cai-rô, Kê (thành) Welsh: Cairo m West Frisian: Kairo Yiddish: קייראָ‎ n (keyro) Zhuang: Gaihloz

Anagrams

• Arico, Coria, cario-, coria

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Cayro (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ɾu/ [ˈkaɪ̯.ɾu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ɾu/ [ˈkaɪ̯.ɾu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ɾo/ [ˈkaɪ̯.ɾo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ɾu/

• Hyphenation: Cai‧ro

Proper noun

Cairo m

1. Cairo (the capital city of Egypt)

Derived terms

• cairota

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Spanish

Proper noun

El Cairo m

1. Cairo (the capital of Egypt)

Derived terms

• cairota