Canberra

Canberra

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Most commonly said to be from Ngunawal kamberra (“meeting place”). See more theories on Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkænbɹə/, /ˈkænbəɹə/
• (US, also) IPA^(key): /ˈkænˌbɛɹə/
• Hyphenation: Can‧berra
• Hyphenation: Can‧ber‧ra

Proper noun

Canberra

1. The capital city of Australia, located in the Australian Capital Territory.
2. (colloquial, metonymically) The Australian federal government.

   A new tax policy was announced by Canberra today.

Translations

capital of Australia

Albanian: Canberra f Amharic: ካንበራ (kanbära), ካንቤራ (kanbera) Arabic: كَانْبِرَا‎ f (kānbirā) Armenian: Կանբեռա (hy) (Kanbeṙa) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܢܒܪܐ‎ (qanberā) Azerbaijani: Kanberra (az) Belarusian: Канбе́ра f (Kanbjéra), Канбэ́ра f (Kanbéra) Bengali: ক্যানবেরা (kẏanbera) Bulgarian: Ка́нбера f (Kánbera) Burmese: ကင်ဘာရာမြို့ (kangbhara-mrui.) Catalan: Canberra Chinese: Cantonese: 堪培拉 (ham1 pui4 laai1) Mandarin: 堪培拉 (zh) (Kānpéilā) Czech: Canberra (cs) f Danish: Canberra Dinka: please add this translation if you can Dutch: Canberra (nl) n Esperanto: Kanbero Estonian: Canberra (et) Finnish: Canberra (fi) French: Canberra (fr) Galician: Camberra (gl) Georgian: კანბერა (ḳanbera) German: Canberra (de) Greek: Καμπέρα f (Kampéra) Hebrew: קַנְבֶּרָה‎ f (kanbera) Hindi: कैनबरा m (kainbarā) Hungarian: Canberra (hu) Ido: Canberra Indonesian: Canberra Italian: Canberra (it) Japanese: キャンベラ (Kyanbera), カンベラ (Kanbera) Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾನ್ಬೆರ್ರಾ (kyānberrā) Kazakh: Канберра (Kanberra) Khmer: កង់បេរ៉ា (km) (kɑngbeeraa) Korean: 캔버라 (ko) (Kaenbeora) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Kanberra Kyrgyz: Канберра (Kanberra) Lao: ແຄນເບີຣາ (khǣn bœ̄ rā) Latvian: Kanbera f Lithuanian: Kanbera f Macedonian: Канбера f (Kanbera) Malay: Canberra Malayalam: കാന്ബെറ (kānbeṟa), കാന്ബറ (kānbaṟa) Maltese: Kanberra Maori: Kānapera Marathi: कॅनबेरा (kĕnberā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Канберра (mn) (Kanberra) Norwegian: Bokmål: Canberra Oriya: କାନବେରା (kanôbera) Ossetian: Канберрӕ (Kanberræ) Pashto: کنبرا‎ f (kanbərā) Persian: کانبرا‎ (kânbarâ) Polish: Canberra (pl) f Portuguese: Camberra f, Canberra f Romanian: Canberra (ro) Russian: Канбе́рра (ru) f (Kanbérra), Ка́нберра (ru) f (Kánberra) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Канбера f, Канберра f Roman: Canberra f, Kanberra f, Kanbera f Sinhalese: කැන්බරා (kænbarā) Slovak: Canberra f Slovene: Canberra f Spanish: Canberra (es), Camberra (es) Tajik: Канберра (Kanberra) Tamil: கான்பரா (kāṉparā) Tatar: Канберра (Qanberra) Telugu: కాన్బెర్రా (kānberrā) Thai: แคนเบอร์รา (kɛɛn-bəə-râa) Tibetan: ཁན་པེ་ར། (khan pe ra) Turkmen: Kanberra Ukrainian: Канбе́рра f (Kanbérra) Urdu: کینبرا‎ m (kainbarā), کینبیرا‎ m (kainberā) Uyghur: كانبېررا‎ (kanbërra) Uzbek: Kanberra Vietnamese: Can-bơ-rơ Yiddish: קאַנבעראַ‎ (kanbera)

Anagrams

• Carn Brea

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Italian

Proper noun

Canberra f

1. Canberra (the capital city of Australia)

Anagrams

• brancare

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Canberra, from Ngunawal kamberra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanˈbɛ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: Can‧be‧rra

Proper noun

Canberra f

1. Canberra (the capital city of Australia)

Declension

Declension of Canberra

	singular
nominative	Canberra
genitive	Canberry
dative	Canberrze
accusative	Canberrę
instrumental	Canberrą
locative	Canberrze
vocative	Canberro

Derived terms

adjective

• canberski

 

nouns

• canberczyk
• canberka

 

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Canberra.

Proper noun

Canberra

1. Alternative form of Camberra

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkenbera]

Proper noun

Canberra f (genitive singular Canberry, declension pattern of žena)

1. Canberra (the capital of Australia)

References

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

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• Camberra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamˈbera/ [kãmˈbe.ra]
• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: Can‧be‧rra

Proper noun

Canberra ?

1. Canberra (the capital city of Australia)