Madagascar

English

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Etymology

From Middle French Madagascar, of uncertain origin, but possibly from Madageiscar, reputedly a corruption of Mogadishu popularized by Marco Polo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /madəˈɡaskə/

Proper noun

Madagascar

1. A country and island of the east coast of Africa with capital Antananarivo. Official name: Republic of Madagascar.

Derived terms

• Madagascan
• Malagasy

Translations

country in Southern Africa

• Afrikaans: Madagaskar (af)
• Armenian: Մադագասկար (hy) (Madagaskar) 
• Bengali: মাদাগাস্কার (bn)
• Breton: Madagaskar (br)
• Catalan: Madagascar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬達加斯加 (cmn), 马达加斯加 (cmn) (Mǎdájiāsījiā)

• Czech: Madagaskar (cs) m
• Danish: Madagaskar (da)
• Dutch: Madagaskar (nl)
• Esperanto: Madagaskaro (eo)
• Finnish: Madagaskar (fi)
• French: Madagascar (fr)
• German: Madagaskar (de)
• Greek: Μαδαγασκάρη (el) (Madagaskári) f 
• Hungarian: Madagaszkár (hu)
• Interlingua: Madagascar (ia)
• Italian: Madagascar (it) m
• Japanese: マダガスカル (ja) (madagasukaru)
• Kamba: Madagaska
• Kikuyu: Madagaska

• Luhya: Madagaska
• Luo: Madagaska
• Macedonian: Мадагаскар (mk) (Madagáskar) m
• Malagasy: Madagasikara
• Malay: Madagaskar (ms)
• Manx: Madagascar (gv)
• Meru: Madagaska
• Navajo: Madaʼgéésgáá
• Norwegian: Madagaskar (no)
• Polish: Madagaskar (pl)
• Portuguese: Madagáscar (pt) (Portugal), Madagascar (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: Madagascar (ro) n
• Russian: Мадагаскар (ru) (Madagaskár) 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мадагаскар (sh) m

  Roman: Madagaskar (sh) m

• Spanish: Madagascar (es)
• Swahili: Bukini (sw), Madagaska (sw)
• Swedish: Madagaskar (sv)
• Turkish: Madagaskar (tr)

See also

• Countries of the world

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Proper noun

Madagascar m

1. Madagascar

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Madagascar m

1. Madagascar

Related terms

• malgascio

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Manx

Proper noun

Madagascar m

1. Madagascar

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Madagascar

1. Madagascar