Zambia

See also: Zámbia and Zâmbia

English

Etymology

From "Zambezi". See Zambezi at Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzæmbiə/

• Audio (UK):

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Proper noun

Zambia

2. A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zambia. Formerly called Northern Rhodesia.

Holonyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Zambian

Translations

country in Southern Africa

• Afrikaans: Zambië (af)
• Amharic: ዛምቢያ (zambiya)
• Arabic: زَامْبِيَا (ar) f (zambiyā)
• Armenian: Զամբիա (hy) (Zambia)
• Belarusian: За́мбія f (Zámbija)
• Bengali: জাম্বিয়া (bn) (jambiẏa)
• Breton: Zambia (br)
• Bulgarian: За́мбия f (Zámbija)
• Burmese: ဇမ်ဘီယာ (jambhiya)
• Chichewa: Zambia
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 贊比亞／赞比亚 (zh) (Zànbǐyà), 赞比亚 (zh) (Zànbǐyà)

• Czech: Zambie (cs) f
• Danish: Zambia
• Dutch: Zambia (nl)
• Esperanto: Zambio (eo)
• Faroese: Sambia n
• Finnish: Sambia (fi)
• French: Zambie (fr) f
• Georgian: ზამბია (zambia)
• German: Sambia (de) n
• Greek: Ζάμπια (el) f (Zámpia)
• Hausa: Zambiya
• Hindi: ज़ाम्बिया (hi) (zāmbiyā)
• Hungarian: Zambia (hu)
• Irish: an tSaimbia f
• Italian: Zambia (it) m
• Japanese: ザンビア (ja) (Zanbia)
• Kalenjin: Zambia
• Kamba: Zambia
• Kazakh: Замбия (Zambiä)
• Khmer: ហ្សំប៊ី (km) (zɑmbii)
• Kikuyu: Zambia
• Korean: 잠비아 (ko) (Jambia)
• Kyrgyz: Замбия (ky) (Zambiya)
• Latvian: Zambija f
• Lithuanian: Zambija (lt) f
• Luhya: Zambia
• Luo: Zambia
• Macedonian: За́мбија (mk) f (Zámbija)
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• Maltese: iż-Żambja
• Maori: Tāmipia
• Meru: Zambia
• Mongolian: Замби (Zambi)
• Norman: Zambia (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Zambia (no)

  Nynorsk: Zambia (nn)

• Persian: زامبیا (zâmbiyâ)
• Polish: Zambia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Zâmbia (pt) f
• Romanian: Zambia (ro) f
• Russian: За́мбия (ru) f (Zámbija)
• Scots: Zambie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Замбија f

  Roman: Zambija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: සැම්බියා (sæmbiyā)
• Slovak: Zambia f
• Slovene: Zámbija (sl) f
• Spanish: Zambia (es) f
• Swahili: Zambia (sw)
• Swedish: Zambia (sv)
• Tagalog: Sambiya
• Tajik: Замбия (Zambiya)
• Telugu: జాంబియా (te) (jāmbiyā)
• Thai: แซมเบีย (th) (sɛɛm-biia)
• Tibetan: ཛམ་བི་ཡ (dzam bi ya)
• Tigrinya: ዛምቢያ (zambiya)
• Turkish: Zambiya (tr)
• Ukrainian: За́мбія (uk) f (Zámbija)
• Urdu: زامبیا (zāmbiyā)
• Uyghur: زامبىيە (zambiye)
• Uzbek: Zambiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Dăm-bi-a
• Yoruba: Sáńbíà

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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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (a country in Africa)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (a country in Africa)

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Chichewa

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /záˈᵐbi.a/

Proper noun

Zámbia

1. Zambia (a country in Africa)

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Danish

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English Zambia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɑm.bi.aː/
• Hyphenation: Zam‧bia

Proper noun

Zambia n

1. Zambia

Derived terms

• Zambiaan
• Zambiaas

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɒmbijɒ]
• Hyphenation: Zam‧bia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Zambia	—
accusative	Zambiát	—
dative	Zambiának	—
instrumental	Zambiával	—
causal-final	Zambiáért	—
translative	Zambiává	—
terminative	Zambiáig	—
essive-formal	Zambiaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Zambiában	—
superessive	Zambián	—
adessive	Zambiánál	—
illative	Zambiába	—
sublative	Zambiára	—
allative	Zambiához	—
elative	Zambiából	—
delative	Zambiáról	—
ablative	Zambiától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Zambiáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Zambiáéi	—

Possessive forms of Zambia
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Zambiám	—
2nd person sing.	Zambiád	—
3rd person sing.	Zambiája	—
1st person plural	Zambiánk	—
2nd person plural	Zambiátok	—
3rd person plural	Zambiájuk	—

Derived terms

• zambiai

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zam.bja/
• Rhymes: -ambja
• Hyphenation: Zàm‧bia

Proper noun

Zambia m

1. Zambia

Derived terms

• zambiano

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈzam.bi.a/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ämbiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡zam.bi.a/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ämbiä]

Proper noun

Zambia f sg (genitive Zambiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Zambia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Zambia
Genitive	Zambiae
Dative	Zambiae
Accusative	Zambiam
Ablative	Zambiā
Vocative	Zambia

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia

Related terms

• zambier
• zambisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia

Related terms

• zambiar
• zambisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzam.bja/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ambja
• Syllabification: Zam‧bia

Proper noun

Zambia f

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Declension

Declension of Zambia

	singular
nominative	Zambia
genitive	Zambii
dative	Zambii
accusative	Zambię
instrumental	Zambią
locative	Zambii
vocative	Zambio

Derived terms

adjective

• zambijski

 

nouns

• Zambijczyk
• Zambijka

 

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθambja/ [ˈθãm.bja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsambja/ [ˈsãm.bja]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Zambia f

1. Zambia

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Zambia

1. Zambia (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

Proper noun

Zambia n (genitive Zambias)

1. Zambia (a country in Southern Africa)

Related terms

• zambier
• zambisk
• zambiska