Tanganyika

English

Etymology

After Lake Tanganyika, from Swahili tanga (“sail”) and nyika (“uninhabited plain, wilderness”), creating the phrase "sail in the wilderness".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæŋɡənˈjiːkə/, /tæŋɡəˈniːkə/

Proper noun

Tanganyika

1. Synonym of Lake Tanganyika, a lake in Africa.
2. A former British mandate and territory and, between 1961 and 1964, an independent country in East Africa.

Derived terms

• Tanganyikan
• Tanzania

Related terms

• German East Africa

Translations

lake

• Arabic: بحيرَة تنجانيقا
• Aragonese: Laco Tanganica
• Azerbaijani: Tanqanika Gölü
• Basque: Tanganyika lakua
• Bulgarian: Танганика (Tanganika)
• Catalan: Llac Tanganyika
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 坦噶尼喀湖 (taan² gaa¹ nei⁴ kaa³ wu⁴)

  Mandarin: 坦噶尼喀湖 (zh) (Tǎngáníkā Hú) (Mainland), 坦干依喀湖 (Tǎngānyīkā Hú) (Taiwan)

• Czech: Tanganika
• Danish: Tanganyikasøen
• Dutch: Tanganyikameer n
• Esperanto: Tanganjiko
• Estonian: Tanganjika järv
• Finnish: Tanganjikajärvi
• French: Lac Tanganyika m
• Galician: Lago Tanganica
• Georgian: ტანგანიიკა (ṭanganiiḳa)
• German: Tanganjikasee (de)
• Greek: Modern: Τανγκανίκα (Tangkaníka)
• Hebrew: אגם טנגנייקה
• Hungarian: Tanganyika-tó (hu)
• Icelandic: Tanganjikavatn
• Indonesian: Danau Tanganyika
• Irish: Loch Tanganyika
• Italian: Lago Tanganica
• Japanese: タンガニーカ湖
• Javanese: Tlaga Tanganyika
• Korean: 탕가니카 호 (tangganika ho)
• Latvian: Tanganjikas ezers
• Lingala: Tanganyika
• Lithuanian: Tanganika
• Macedonian: Тангањика (Tanganjika)
• Malay: Tasik Tanganyika
• Norwegian: Tanganyikasjøen

  Norwegian Nynorsk: Tanganyikasjøen

• Persian: دریاچه تانگانیکا
• Polish: Tanganika (pl) f
• Portuguese: Lago Tanganica
• Quechua: Tanganika qucha
• Romanian: Lacul Tanganyika
• Russian: Танганьи́ка (ru) f (Tanganʹíka)
• Samogitian: Tanganėka
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Језеро Тангањика, Тангањика

  Roman: Jezero Tanganjika, Tanganjika (sh)

• Sicilian: Lacu Tanganyika
• Slovak: Tanganika
• Slovene: Tanganjiško jezero
• Spanish: Lago Tanganica
• Swahili: Tanganyika
• Swedish: Tanganyikasjön
• Tamil: டாங்கனிக்கா ஏரி (ṭāṅkaṉikkā ēri)
• Thai: ทะเลสาบแทนแกนยิกา
• Turkish: Tanganika Gölü
• Ukrainian: Танганьїка (Tanhanʹjika)
• Venetian: Lago Tanganica
• Welsh: Llyn Tanganyika
• Yakut: Танганьика күөл (Tanganyika küöl)

territory, former country

• Afrikaans: Tanganjika
• Albanian: Tanganjika
• Arabic: تَنْجَانِيقَا f (tanganīqā)
• Basque: Tanganika
• Bulgarian: Танганика f (Tanganika)
• Catalan: Tanganyika f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坦噶尼喀 (zh) (Tǎngāníkā)

• Czech: Tanganika f
• Danish: Tanganyika
• Dutch: Tanganyika n
• Esperanto: Tanganjikio
• Finnish: Tanganjika
• French: Tanganyika (fr) m
• German: Tanganjika n
• Hebrew: טנגנייקה f (tanganyika)
• Hindi: तांगान्यिका m (tāṅgānyikā), तांगानिका m (tāṅgānikā), टांगान्यिका m (ṭāṅgānyikā), टांगानिका m (ṭāṅgānikā), तंगानिका m (taṅgānikā), तंगानीका m (taṅgānīkā)
• Hungarian: Tanganyika
• Icelandic: Tanganjika
• Indonesian: Tanganyika
• Italian: Tanganika f
• Japanese: タンガニーカ (tanganīka)
• Korean: 탕가니카 (tangganika)
• Lithuanian: Tanganika
• Marathi: टांगानिका (ṭāṅgānikā)
• Norwegian: Tanganyika (no)
• Polish: Tanganika (pl) f
• Portuguese: Tanganica f
• Russian: Танганьи́ка (ru) f (Tanganʹíka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тангањика f

  Roman: Tanganjika (sh) f

• Slovene: Tanganjika f
• Spanish: Tanganica f
• Swahili: Tanganyika
• Swedish: Tanganyika
• Tamil: தங்கனீக்கா (taṅkaṉīkkā)
• Ukrainian: Танганьїка f (Tanhanʹjika)
• Walloon: Tanganyika f

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Tanganyika

1. Tanganyika (a lake eastern Africa)
2. (historical) Tanganyika (colonial possession and later country)